Till Death Do Us Part

Blooming in the Darkness

The light hurts, it always hurts. It comes and goes as it pleases not caring what carnage might be left behind, it can give you the highest of highs but it is only a fleeting moment. It blows away in the wind like it was never there at all. 

When the light is gone who is there? The darkness. Who catches you when you fall? Who is there when life is at its peak as you go tumbling over the edge? It's the darkness that wraps you up in its embrace. It's always lingering in a corner, under a bed, in a dark alley, it waits for its turn and only when the light fights its way through is it gone, but we all know the light never wants to stay. 

So the darkness grows familiar, when the light leaves we greet it like an old friend with open arms. It's there, in that darkness that I learned to flourish, to bloom in its shadows. 

I became something else, something that even the light shied away from. I thrived when so many feared, when so many ran. People fail to realise that they are chasing something that's always running away, it'll let you catch it for a moment, and that moment may be glorious but then it's over. You have to start again from that same dark place. Why not learn to find the same things in it that the light claims to give? 

There is a home in the darkness unlike the light. How can you ever feel at home in a place that never lingers? They always yearn for what they can't have, but people fail to see what has been in front of them the whole time, if they just embrace what has been freely given then they may just see the cruel game that they endlessly play with the callous light.

When the light threw me away like the trash I was I didn't want it again, I was contempt to stay where I had been left to rot, so, in the dirt ridden streets I built a home, a kingdom. I was burnt to ashes but I used those cinders to build my throne.

I crave it now, I breathe it. The darkness, the bad, I want it, I need it. I walk in the shadows, watching, observing, I pass many people but if they notice me, sense my presence, none would dare disturb this creature in the dark.

I stroll through dark alleys that those light lovers would never dare trek night or day. This is my kingdom, this is where I belong, where I was reborn. It is this place that I need not fear, it is those that fall in my path that should be fearful.