the darkness doesn't shine within you.

impossible.
it smothers.

sometimes so delicate and lightly with skilled seduction
it conditions you for its welcome

sometimes forceful and passionately dark,
like the night and fears wrapped into one cloak
it forces you homelike into the darkness
where the peace is only a temporary ruse
manipulation to ready you
for your deathly dangle
again and again.


sometimes it appears helpless
and calls you in with longing and pain-filled eyes.
it prays upon your light
and draws it out of you good-naturedly
and makes you feel needed,
promising to love the light...

but oh, the smothering
is the most cunning of all these things,

learning to breathe with light is not an easy thing,
you must learn wise and sacrifice for together these are
powerful things.

what glitters is the cold
what shines is the soul
what covers is the darkness
what opens is the light

anyone clothed in darkness
is only one thought away from light
and that is that they must deny the power of the dark
as it is no match for the holy light.

a soul is not permitted to stay too long in one or the other,
that's why the sun and the moon were made

and each disappear behind a shroud, here and there
to make you understand how it is
that love and hate go around,
for one must contrast the other
each as capable but none is sustainable.


so thus measure your darkness
with the balance of light
and enjoy the strength
you gain in the fight

may you endeavour in the end
to not let the other win
then may your soul take flight,
a higher journey is always a touch away
ever just in sight.