Hallelujah

Hallelujah! I try pick up the hammer, it's heavy and very big, as big as the nail I need to pull out. I can't lift it. I look around for help, and realize it's very dark. I can't see anything, anyone, any light at all. I cry out with all my might, HELP!!! nothing. Again I scream at the top of the my lungs I NEED HELP ... still nothing ... nothing. No response, where is everyone? Friends, family, have they abandoned  me, am I such a failure that even my trusted have resigned me to darkness. I start running, any direction will do at this point, and calling out is there anybody out there, does any body care? I stop. I hear something, far in the distance, its music.

Hallelujah. A thought, I close my eyes and suddenly I see. I open them, darkness. I close my eyes again, and I am washed with light. They are here, not in my old reality, but my new. My trusted are here. One hands me the hammer, smaller, lighter, I can lift it, I can wield it, I feel strong, powerful, I can do anything when my trusted are behind me. I turn around, a slight smile, a small tear, and I stride back to the nails, back to my old reality, back to what I must do, and with my trusted behind me, I hold my hammer high, ready for the work ahead.