Darkness

Sometimes starting my day at Oh Dark Thirty is a melancholy enterprise.

I turn off the light,

pulling the darkness around me

safe and warm,

shrouding my loneliness and I.

Comforting, numbing, relaxing

allowing me sleep.

For I will wake rested

before Darkness is gone.

I will drive with the claws 

of my Companion locked in 

in their usual place;

scarred and bloodless wounds.

And I will rend and tear

at the darkness then.

Running through it;

a blade through black crepe,

until I uncover the Sun and

perhaps its warmth and light

shall make my Companion's claws

let go for awhile as I bask

In the memories of those

who made the loneliness leave.

Reviews

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

I like the way you did this. "For I will wake rested
before Darkness is gone." - I saw your lead in so I can know literally what this can mean, but to me it has layers that feel very lonely and yet victorious - only not quite as strong as victory - can't think of the word, but it's more than surviving because you are "rested" and ready to take on the cause and keep going. Last line really hits me with sweetness and gratitude.

[Mark]

I think you got exactly what I was trying to convey, a sense of being okay with loneliness, coming to terms with it and no longer hurting so much as becoming a part of me. Thanks CAF !