Pardoned, Love Rejoices

Night brings me sweet surcease

Of conscious suffering;

A quiet, calming peace

Hiding from the world brings.

I’ve not a’ways been this way,

Fearful and uncertain;

Love is my undoing—

And my final curtain.

Drawn back, for all to see:

Faults and fatal choices,

I pray cleansed will I be...

Pardoned, Love rejoices.