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Dark Light

Posted Apr 26, 2026 · 46 lines · 1 critiques

The world I saw through snapped lenses

showed up on my skin,

evident in clothing that never saw a day of color.

There was a time, long ago,

when the fear of the dark lingered deep—

stories shared for full effect,

symptoms of words spoken and read

until the dread crept in:

total body paralysis.

Immersed in a black hole of nothing,

a night light previewing the lurking.

The word itself was the spelling of FEAR,

creeping inside dark bones of flesh,

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escaping through the top layer.

A depiction of what walls are made up of,

no escape once it consumes the shell.

Then, the shift.

In that dark room, with a hint of light,

a friend was waiting, perhaps.

Desperate to break free,

I heard a whisper: I’ll be your friend.

Consumed in the mess of shadows,

We talked for hours, as usual.

It was comforting.

We became friends, the shadow and I.

But now, it is angry with me again—

accusing me of abandoning it for the light.

It misses those chats long into the night,

the reminiscing, the inner turmoil and tears,

the strange, adolescent fun.

I was taught to avoid it,

to fear the dark shadow of the self.

But in the darkness, it prevails,

waiting for a knock at the door,

already seeing the path the light tries to show.

Bring the torch from the main source:

without light, there is no darkness.

And once the shadow showed their face,

it was never the same again.

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