Always the Morning Returns

Writer's Digest PAD Challenge, day 20
For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Always (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Always, in spite of its darkest of dark

Or loneliest lonely as night fills each space

Always, from outer regions morning comes

An ether epiphany of love’s kind grace

Always, in spite of our fumbling foray

As ‘neath the scepter of duty we grope

Always the dawn washes midnight away

Awesome allotment of mercy and hope

Always, in spite of our pitiful proof

That we are nothing but man, prone to sin  

Always the darkness is drawn from night’s roof

Always the morning returns once again

© Janet Martin