Light

Even in the darkest places you can find light. A place where the pain is less. Hold on into that spark, keep breathing, keep fighting.

Everybody feels lost sometimes, in the middle of a cold room, nowhere to go, nowhere to escape. Caught in this dark room, empty, but fill with doubt.

I’ve been there. I’ve been lost. I’ve been scared, still I am. I don’t have words of wisdom, not even words of hope, but I keep walking in the dark. Sometimes I’m hopeless and sometimes in peace. But remember.

Even in this moment, when the dark consumes every hope of a better day, the light can be found, no matter how little, is the secret promise of a great today. There you go. A chance to live, not always perfect, but always hopeful to find the light in the darkest time.

Reviews

[Echoes of Eros]

Elle, your words exalt the soul to a place of strength, even in the dark places, even in the shadowed world that tries to strip us of hope and courage. Walk on. We can walk on. We have your stirring words to let us know that the world will never be perfect, never be one of pure light, but we will find the light if we keep moving toward dawn's sighs. xo

[parentheses]

I enjoy poems that make me think. While reading it I was struck by how you waver from hopelessness to peace and I wondered what is it about hope that brings one peace. Hope is just an idea, whereas the darkness is real and overwhelming. Yet the idea of hope has the power to transcend the darkness and in many cases has its own illuminating qualities. Thank you for sharing.