Fear comes in the darkness incapable of sleep the mind wanders possessed by darkening shadows invading the darkness of the night. Tossing and turning sighing and groaning the restless mind is unable to conquer fearful and disturbing thoughts. All seems so bleak and daunting in the middle of the night no sense of hope foreboding dreams prevail without relenting. A sense of despondency and despair grips one like a clenched fist refusing to let go its hold with unrelenting ea

Life is so hard and difficult no bed of rose petals rather one of piercing thorns hurting deep within penetrating the heart and deadening the soul. Why is it so? I feel the pain I hear the darkness that burns so deep within my soul without a hope a dim longing for escape. It would be so easy to end it all to take the not so easy way out leaving hurt and pain for those left behind. Where is hope? There is no light and, yet a glimmer far away in distant lands. #LifeisDifficult

For over seven years, during the late sixties and early seventies, I worked in two coalmines in the north of England and then in Scotland. Down the pit in the bowels of the earth, there was a strange atmosphere all of its own. It was so dark and black that if you turned your lamp off you could place your hand in front of your face and not see a thing. I often worked in the places where there were no lights at all except for the lamp clipped to my helmet. On one occasion, I wa