Poetry Corner: Dazzling Darkness

Dazzling Darkness 1-11-01There is a darkness in my soulWhere brightness used to flickerLeft is just an empty holeThat now grows dark and darker.The foaming, empty sea is fullOf what confuses meBoth deep and dark yet light and shallowPerhaps it holds the key.Emotions wash over my heartLove and hate, joy and sorrow;Light and dark, leaving battle scarsFighting to win over my soul.Near comes a diamond glowPiercing the heart of meBursting into my soulLeaving me empty of me.The darkness terrifies my heartYet I run to its embraceWith light peeking into my eyesI stare at the dark, ugly face.Enthralled and in horror I realizeThe face is none but my ownUnder the witness of stormy skiesI battle myself alone.Darkness so bright it blinds meI dash down the grim, haunted roadThe world seems ghastly and emptyI shiver alone in the cold.Long lonely shadows are all I holdAs I peer at the path aheadHorror creeps into my soulAs I realize, I am dead.Then, out of the sky, a scarrèd handReaches down to comfort me;Lifting me up, helping me standLeaving me pure and clean.~Jenelle Schmidt