Darkness in the Light

Kind of about how depression feels, searching for something.

Turn out the light and let the darkness consume you,

As the darkness takes over, your vision disappears.

A sudden fear surges though your body, sending shivers up your spine.

Fear of the darkness; of the unknown.

You stand there for a moment, paralyzed by the shadows surrounding you.

What or who they may be you know not.

Their identities hide withing the impending darkness.

Soon though, you push aside your fear just long enough to run.

Where you are going is unknown.

Light; the ability to see is what you seek.

Even the dimmest of light would do.

You just want something that can push aside the darkness,

To push away the unknown monsters hiding within the shadows of darkness.

But, there is no light to be found,

Only the darkness.

You run in every direction, wild with fear until you trip on your own feet.

Now, you lie face down upon the ground.

The fear turns to dread as the realization that the light is gone finally sets in.

The darkness now seems darker than the blackest of black.

Not even the shadows are visible now.

The dread turns into miserable nothingness as you give up.

A huddled mass upon the ground, the darkness consumes every fiber of your being.

It becomes a part of you, and you a part of it.

Your mind finally goes blank as you lay, waiting.

For what, you do not know, but you continue to wait for something.

Anything.

Finally, dawn approaches and with it, the light you so desperately sought,

But it's too late, the darkness has already consumed your inner being.

Though you may be lit up on the outside, inside, you are still darker than the darkest night.

Yet, you continue on,

Hoping that one day, the light will find it's way into you once again.

Until then, you continue on in the light

While you still remain full of darkness.

Waiting, hopelessly waiting for the day the darkness will be filled once again with light.

Author's Note

Tell me what you think, please?

Reviews

[Gaiamethod]

This is really good! It is very much how depression feels. You have captured it very well. It is interesting because even how it reads feels like emotion is trapped inside, deadened. I know depression well! I also like your style. You express it without trying too hard. That makes it easy to connect with what you are trying to express.
Very good write.

[Jack Isaac]

hmmm -- is it that you are saying depression is a choice? -- "Turn out the light and let the darkness consume you" --and once this happens there is no going back? Certainly, further choices become hidden in the darkness. Then, one's task is to seek the light --but no, it's to find the light switch "turn on the light" --and how do we find our inner light switch? I'm guessing we do so through poems like this one. Nice write!

[Jeremy Baker]

Fine narrative style in this perceptive write. Well written.

[Amila Jay]

Really nice:)

[Manpreet]

It is interesting poem. I loved the link of depression with darkness... very fresh idea yet so much familiar. I loved it!

[Dragonflyz]

Hauntingly beautiful...wonderful read!

[Teri B]

Yin and yang...light banishes darkness, darkness swallows light. Life is such a conundrum, eh?

[Everson Taveras]

You never cease to amaze me. There are no words that can possibly capture the essence of this poem. Great write.

[EMF]

Quite honestly? It's superb. I could say how well you have dealt with the wordplay or how you have overlaid themes and ideas, but at the end of it, it is still superb. I am so very glad I read it

[Dayran]

In the beginning the universe was in darkness and then, there was light. Your poem is reminiscent of such an experience. What an opportunity to see again with your own eyes, god's magnificent creation. A poem that seeks to destroy the sloth of the mind in darkness.

[Raven Starhawk]

Delicious array of words that you weaved.