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Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

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Darkness, why do we fear this unavoidable void? The fear that everyone is born with, why is it ingrained in our souls? Is it because we fear what we cannot see?
Or maybe we fear the inevitable darkness, the one within our very beings, something we must confront in order to see the light.

They keep me in the dark, because they fear me in the light, they keep me in isolation because they fear my presence, they keep me hopeless because they fear my power, and to be honest so do I. All I hear when I wake up is the constant and irrating dripping of the faucet, my eyes start to adjust as I slowly drag myself out of bed, stumbling through the darkness taking exactly twenty-two steps to get to the blocked off entrance of the cell, where my daily meal is placed exactly two steps away from the door, as it always been since i've been locked away here. The "food" is edible enough, after being forced to eat the same crap everyday for the majority of my life. I take the meal to wooden table that I outgrew five years ago, and eat what they provided me, I honestly dont know what it is they feed me all I know is that if I dont eat it, i'll go hungry. As I start to dig into the undesirable meal I can't help contemplating the fact that they feed me at all, I mean if they wanted to they …show more content…

With extreme concentration and will-power, I push it deep inside me. The result from this is an extreme exhaustion that overtakes my whole body, causing it to falter, going limp onto the floor, my limbs dont respond to me as I attempt to pick myself up, I decide to just lay there until I regain my strength, slowly drifting off until the darkness overtakes me once

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