Tonight, I’ll let darkness sleep with me. No, I won’t make noise, I’ll be quite, the way a five-year old is while he let his favorite cartoon perform. No, I won’t wake it up, today It’ll sleep beside me. For if it wakes up, It’ll remind me of my light. It’ll make me remind of you. It’s not that I don’t like a thought of you in mind. Why wouldn’t I? You were all I had once. The shallow darkness is what I have now.
Please don’t ask me if it’s beautiful. Yes, it was. Darkness was beautiful to me when I had you in my arms every night. I always preferred to be with my light, in darkness.
No I’m not alone. I have the same beautiful darkness with me. The same darkness that promised ‘forever’ to me, together with you. Clearly, promises are made to be broken.
They say ‘Nothing lasts forever’. I wonder if it’s true for darkness too. What will happen if it leaves me too? Maybe, darkness leaves to bring in light. But, no matter how bright it is, you’ll always find darkness lingering about in the corners, waiting to engulf you. I hope it gobbles me up soon enough, for the light will blind me after being in dark for so long.
From the darkest corners of my heart,
Nupur Dua.
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