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Children Of Light
This is very much a religious poem, but I didn't intend for it to be religious when I wrote it. I was in a show called "Nevermore" a few years ago and I played one of the lead parts, Captain Nimrod, a.k.a. Satan. So I was supposed to do a character sketch and I was looking through the concordance in my Bible for passages about Satan and I came across a section on light and darkness. That's where I found the verse that inspired this poem (Ephesians 5:8, included with the poem). That one verse gave me the idea to write this poem.
In particular, the last verse is about my own faith, Christianity. In the Bible, Christ told his followers to be "strangely different", in other words, not like anyone of this world. The part about a promise refers to the individual promises you make with God. Whether you keep them or not, this is your pact with God, and your beliefs make up your faith.
I think we are all "children of light", whether we realize it or not. Whoever or whatever we are waiting for doesn't matter. What matters is that we believe it will come. And so, in a sense, we are all sitting on our window ledges, waiting to become children once more.
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