𝐷𝑂𝑁𝑇 𝐹𝑂𝐿𝐿𝑂𝑊 𝑀𝐸

𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬

As a young child I was gifted with the responsibility of being unresponsive, so everyone else could be.
I lost humanity for humanity, my purpose was to be as bleak as a gray sky, so rainbows can surface.
My several younger siblings took after the berating of my mother, and I would simply ignore it and continue to care for them.
What they failed to know she almost cared as little for them as she did me.

When I found the freetime, I stalked our halls in the night, silently passing through the whispers of sleeping breathes, like a ghost.

My feet held no weight those nights, my breathes blended with the trees cracking at the window, my eyes gleaming like the moon's shimmer.

I crept through the halls, bolding by every step until I stood aside the door, several little shoes scattered in front it that I weaved past, placing my grayed hand on the doorknob.

The door didn't make a squeak as I expected, but that was welcome. The moonlight illustrated me in ways I wasn't, my skin turning pale and clear, without blemish.

A small smile crept on my face as I'd joined a new light, my cheeks warming at the foreign feeling.
I took a step on the paved blocks that guided our gate to the door, dancing upon them like lily's, the gravel tickling on the bottoms of my feet.

The gate was notoriously loud so I opted to step over it, and continue down the path, drops falling on my nightshirt from the vines that weighed above.
The night is mysterious but welcoming, shadows of people keeping me company.

I walked along the road, finding warmth in the cold. Beloved in the town I walked by day, submerged into depths and pools, angles protruding of black.
My hair glitters silver and white, my eyes fooling me in the dark as it careens before my eyes,
curly spools tickling the back of my neck.

There is no hate, no pain, no hurt in the dark, there's always a corner, as yes light cannot exist without dark, but dark certainly can live beyond light. It's comforting knowing I may find myself lost, and not beyond the step I took prior.

Bumps on my skin raise as I reach a corner, a large and majestic lake illuminating a mirrored floor.
I take a breath of the fresh air in, accepting the darkness to fill my lungs, my being, to be one with it and rejoin. I close my eyes, leaning into it's embrace.