Darkness
Maybe you will never be gone from me
Maybe you are a part of my soul
Balsamic moon baby
Little one born before the Moon could be seen
When it was disappearing in deep space
Into a void
Of silence
Were you born to be the witness
Of all this pain
Of the fragility of relationships and human care
Of the agony that occurs
When endless goodbyes
And cleaving seem unrelenting
Leaving in their wake
A pile of ashes
Or a smouldering fire
You must tend alone
Looking around
No one seems to see
How hard it is
How much you struggle
How close you come
On some days to death
To saying
This burden is too heavy to bear
Crushed
Like a lead weight
Your soul sinks
To the bottom of the ocean
And you become
A pile of sludge
But then
Just as you think
Death and depression
Have defeated you
A wave rises
And with raw power
Sets its surge inside you
Bidding you to fight
With all your might
Against extinction
And although you are exhausted
And feel as though you cannot go on
Somewhere else you know
That if you just trust
And hold yourself
In the centre of this wave
Riding it
You will rise again
Distilling difficult wisdom
And heartbreak
Into this seed
Which becomes
A black pearl
You place
Inside your heart
Then the darkness
That almost eclipsed you
Will become only
Dark memories you carry
Of all, that in passing
Awakened you
To the value of light
Deep mysteries
Of undoing
Of becoming
That with time
Allow the light to dawn
Over the horizon of your soul
No longer so eclipsed
By doom
Emerging From The Dark Night 