A Voice Unheard - Part II: Poetry

The Beauty of Darkness

Some people worship the darkness around them because only in that darkness can the feel the light,

What makes them stronger is working through their entire plight,

I cannot understand a world without pain or strife,

A world devoid of this is in many ways not much of a life.

Many may say, I don't know happiness or do not want it truly,

This is far from the truth, because all my life I have craved happiness dearly,

My journey to understanding happiness is a slow one, but I am getting there,

I will fight the odds to make it, even if I have to be laid threadbare.

I want to be the master of my emotions and the controller of my feelings,

Free from any affect from the words or existence of any other being,

The darkness around me and within shuts out the world from looking inside me,

And I am grateful for that divine protection that allows me to just be.

I don't claim to be perfect or to have a life plan kept ready to live by,

But my attitude is one that never says die,

I'll plod along making my mistakes and facing the harshest of judgment,

Hoping to God that I will prevail above all else in the end.

I know what it feels like to ask God to take it all away,

And to have very little else to pray,

But I also know what it feels like to watch God work his miracles in me,

It those moments I live for and those miracles alone that I choose to see.

Whatever darkness surrounds me or consumes I am grateful for its omnipresence,

It has made understand myself and see life's essence,

Life's essence is to give more good than you get and to always believe in the greatness of the forces of nature,

And to never think more of your own stature.

I am grateful for life's abundant lessons because it draws me closer to being the person I should be,

Even if it means I feel things more deeply,

Yes, it hurts! Yes, it makes me happy!

Life is too real to me!

This is the beauty of darkness; it makes you go to the light,

It makes you understand the value of all the good things in sight,

The beauty of darkness is that it shows you the way to live a good life,

Strange as it sounds, the darkness can make you live a life that is right.