Darkness

Darkness

Layers and layers of darkness

Layers and layers of suffocating darkness

Darkness

I use the darkness to hide

I use the darkness to hide who I am

Darkness

Simultaneously friend and enemy

Simultaneously best friend and relentless enemy

Darkness

It allows me to hide

It allows me to hide my truths

Darkness

Devours and snuffs out light

Devours and snuffs out the light of possibility

Possibility that feeds dreams

Possibility that fuels desires

Possibility of what could be

Possibility that allows for full flowering

Possibility that allows for sight

Possibility that helps us breathe

Possibility that allows us to see who we could be

Darkness that snuffs out that sight

Possibility that lifts us up and allows us to breathe

Darkness that drags us down and sucks up air

Not all darkness is internal

Some is imposed by others knowingly or not

Some is laid by things said wrong

Respect and love can lift the darkness

Lift it and shatter it

But their lack imposes it all the more

And can make it harder to break

See part and see all

Don't let the darkness hide you

Don't let the darkness win

So they say

But saying is easier than doing

Doing when crippled by doubt and worry

Let your light shine

Shine for all to see

But what if they refuse to see?

See who I truly am

See what I want to show

See that which is within

So I choose darkness

Darkness to hide and protect

But that same darkness is killing me

Ugly Beauty

Sparkling, shiny, shimmering, splendid

A beautiful surface hiding rotting meat

What sounds beautiful turns out to be clamorous noise

What looks pretty turns out to be ugly beneath the surface

Life affirming? Only if a vampire gives life

Uplifting? Only if drowning lifts you up

When up is down and down is up

And right is wrong and wrong is right

You will see the truth

The truth that was hidden in plain sight

The truth you refused to see even though you could

The truth that corruption and decay have taken root.

Look at the bodies left strewn in its wake

Look at the lives left broken and in ruins

Look at the destruction it has wrought

It might have been truly beautiful once

It might have been beautiful through and through

But now it's beauty hides ugliness

Now is the true face revealed

It leaves behind festering wounds

It leaves behind sucking chest wounds

From where it has ripped out hearts and destroyed them

Healing, life, love - of these it knows nothing

All it knows is lying, manipulation, deceit, and control

It may turn out some beauty, but it's beauty is barely skin deep

Just as beauty can hide ugliness

Ugliness can hide beauty

If only you have the patience

And sight to see what is true

Don't let dress and frippery fool you

Look within to see what is truly there

Don't let the pretty bauble blind you

Use your sight to truly look and see

For what do you want?

True beauty?

Or the facade of true beauty?

That is the question.

Impact

One word

One word can make a difference

It can save a life or end it

It can make a day or destroy it

One word

What a difference a word makes

It can tear down or build up

It can tear down a spirit or uplift it

One word

You never know what it can do

You never know who needs to hear it

You never know how it can help

One word

Your one word made my day

Your one word made me smile

Your one word lifted me up

One word

You will never know how that one word made me smile

You will never know how much I needed to hear those 8 letters

You will never know how that word made me feel

One word

What word had that power

What word had that magic

It was a simple word

One word

Handsome