The definition of darkness is the absence of light. So am I missing light? Because without light there is no darkness, but with darkness, there is no light. You cannot see darkness. Darkness cannot be fully understood. So does that mean no one will understand who- I mean what, I am? Darkness only comes when everything is gone, yet everything can hide within. People fear what lies within me, yet so do I, for I have no control over what hides inside. Darkness is nothing, then darkness is everything.
__ __ __ I was once something, well, I was kind of nothing, but definitely something. I stayed to myself and no one watched me; that's how I liked it. I would just blend in with the paint on a wall, morph in as the shadow in an ally, become the dirt in a ditch. I was nothing more than a breeze riding through air, a pine needle leaving home, a piece of dust collecting friends. I wasn’t something, but I surely wasn’t nothing. I am no longer in riches, for my freedom is shackled. I was once more and I still hold it tight within. Though now, I am nothing more than a mere shadow. I once pushed through air, gave light to the world, brought warmth, decorated
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I can’t escape myself, so how can I release the shackles I have created, how can I live? This cruel, destructive world that I am, or maybe I’m not, is a dangerous place. What I’ve played such a big part in is nothing to be proud of, instead while I’ve been living in luxury there’s a true darkness hiding. I’m not true darkness, for I’m a mere illusion and I suffocate myself with pity while I have no room. There is an expanding darkness ruining the world, the people within. The definition is in fact not the absence of light, but the absence of soul. Darkness is within people and I support it, I give it life, but it resides in people, not as an abstraction. I am the reason behind the pain, maybe I am the