My life used to be full of life.
It tasted like dried apricot
and banana chips.
It smelled like a sun-warmed dog
and sunflowers.
It felt like cool water on sun-baked skin
and rain sizzling against asphalt.

And it struck me as beautiful
years later
when I'd spent so much time in the dark.
I never realized
the exact moment
when my skies became so dark and menacing.
I can't pinpoint the year
in which I forgot what lives in the light.

You tell me to get past the dark
to work through it
but who would I be without it?
Baby, I may have grown up in darkness,
but I am the most beautiful ******* star in the sky
you just need a little darkness to see it.