It's dark outside of my glass jar
So I stay inside and watch from afar
Taking solace in my cozy isolation
Living life from the percolation
Of air into my domain
Not moving, I remain

In a perpetual state of innocence
My freedom given as the sole expense

Yet curiosity wells up in me
Like a coming storm in a pitch black sea
And waves crash inside my head
Putting myself in shackles of lead
I realize that I'm not living life
What I'm doing is avoiding conflict, strife

For living without troubles
Is the same as a speech made of mumbles

So I untwist the top of my jar
And see around me, in that blackness thick as tar
And see fireflies dancing like licks of flames
With an intensity so powerful it burns the blood in my veins
And I realize that I am also aglow
With a warm feeling growing from my head to my toes

For I have taken my first steps into the real world
Stepped away from my comfortable abode

And accomplished what few can say they have done
To have faced the daunting future instead of turn tail and run
And realize that what's to come is not all shrouded in mystery
Light of other lighting bugs shining brightly through that witchery
We all have some people whom we may call friends
Who see things the way you do, the same prescription lens

Because none of us are truly ever alone
And no sins are too severe to never atone

We are the fires, the lights for tomorrow
And even through hate, pain, stress, scorn, and sorrow,
Not even the sun, nor the moon, or even the stars can compare
We continue to walk through the dark, that burden we must bear
Because we are part of this vast, strange universe
An ocean of singularity in which all will submerse