Only a Poem

I've only got a poem for you tonight, because I don't really have much to say.

Darkness

~Emi Renae

Why does the darkness always look

      so far away,

but when you look around it’s

      right beside you?

      Around you…

      in you?

Always within arm’s reach, but

      unobtainable.

      Impossible to find.

My life is shrouded in darkness.

      Darkness of uncertainty

      darkness of doubt

      darkness of pain…

      of unhappiness…

      of fear.

There are lights in the Darkness,

      meant to push that Darkness away

But it seems I’m good at flinging

      light behind me

      to feel my way alone…

It is the nature of things,

      to undergo this darkness of life.

But they say it is always darkest just

      before the dawn…

So some day…when the time is right…

      Dawn will come.

And life will be light.

But until that day, it is

      the lanterns,

      the flashlights

      the help along the way that really matters.

Until next time, with love,

--Emily

~xoxo~