Light
The concept of good, morally sound and just
A thing we rely on, look to and trust
Dark
An evil shadow, lurking behind
The scary, destructive, inner recesses of one's mind
But one cannot function without the other. For in the brightest of lights we see the darkest shades cast on the ground below
And in the dark we see that faint lantern light, illuminated with its glow.
So can we say that pain cannot live without health? That love cannot exist without hate? Joy without sorrow?
To acknowledge that these ideas are a reality
Would make more sense than dismissing them as fallacies
Cause I believe in order to feel happy you need to have been sad
And in order to feel like you've gained you've had to have lost what you had.
People always ask how I can be so understanding
How I can be so patient, kind and undemanding
And I think it's because I've felt pain myself
I've been in sickness and in health
And its not so hard to realize why
No one likes it when someone cries.
Jul 24, 2016
Jul 24, 2016 at 9:07 PM UTC
Light
The concept of good, morally sound and just
A thing we rely on, look to and trust
Dark
An evil shadow, lurking behind
The scary, destructive, inner recesses of one's mind
But one cannot function without the other. For in the brightest of lights we see the darkest shades cast on the ground below
And in the dark we see that faint lantern light, illuminated with its glow.
So can we say that pain cannot live without health? That love cannot exist without hate? Joy without sorrow?
To acknowledge that these ideas are a reality
Would make more sense than dismissing them as fallacies
Cause I believe in order to feel happy you need to have been sad
And in order to feel like you've gained you've had to have lost what you had.
People always ask how I can be so understanding
How I can be so patient, kind and undemanding
And I think it's because I've felt pain myself
I've been in sickness and in health
And its not so hard to realize why
No one likes it when someone cries.
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