The Torch-Bearer
by Liz Adnitt

I must admit, I'm carrying a torch for you.
Then, you carried one for me.

When I look back and wonder,
How did I manage to carry on?
All I can think of is you.

I remember the way I struggled along the rough path of life,
Through a dark tunnel of misery.
Everywhere I looked, all I could see was suffering.
My suffering. But something made me carry on.
Something pushed me forward and told me:
Life will some day make all this worthwhile.
So I staggered onward, waiting, hoping that it would.
Praying that something would happen.
Then, just as I was ready to give up,
Something did happen.

I saw the light at the end of the tunnel,
That tunnel of clinding darkness.
I struggled onwards towards that light,
And finally reached its happy, welcoming brightness.
The light at the end of the tunnel was a torch,
And you were holding that torch for me.

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