Last Light (Poem)

Last Light

These tunnels I walk through are dark and dirty

Filled with a choking atmosphere of anxiety

They are dead, yet alive

All the foulest of my nightmares reside in this hive.

For years, I've befriended the surrounding lack of hope

For years, these tunnels have been my home.

With each step I take, daggers pierce through my mental scars

And my heart is choked by the memories of the past.

Without purpose, unwillingly, I move on

There are many dangers here, cannot stay in one place for long.

I've fought many monsters, I've survived

I've only lost everything, and I'm alive.

There is darkness all around, it's so full

That it's begun to seep inside, into my soul.

I continue forward, and take a sharp right

And stop as a miracle comes into my sight

It's the first light I've seen in this eternal night

It's like a dream, it's the Last Light.

Like a moth to a flame, I'm drawn towards it

My eyes transfixed, impossible to resist

There is a small crack in the ground above

Yet the heavenly glow is enough

To illuminate these hellish underground passages.

For what seems like ages,

I stand under the portal

And look in awe at the outside world

Everything is in rapture, everything in in anarchy

Explosions ring about in an addictive melody.

As the outside creatures chase around and kill each other

Everyone, even the dying, are filled with laughter

So much beauty, so many illusions

So many addictions, so many delusions

There is so much freedom all around

Makes me feel like an inferior, chained to the underground.

The world outside is overwhelmed with perils, and so I pray

For direction, even a hazardous way

To enter this anarchic heaven

That has now become my relentless obsession.

I stay there, even when the rains arrive

When the tears fall from the stormy skies.

I have to move on, explore the darkness of the tunnels yet again

So I can find a way to escape

But I'm held there, I've lost all my fight

Lost in the dreams of the Last Light...