A Darkness and a Light

by Dionysos Maskaleris

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I thought I would never write again.

I thought I would never love again

but I begin to wake now

from dreamless nights and days

of a numbness and a despair

beyond all Light and Darkness.

I had given up because she would not love me

the way I wanted --

the world would not love me

the way I wanted - 

I would not love myself

without wanting.

I could not see - I forgot.

I would not just be - just being - the way 

the Energy of the Universe loves me.

I wrapped my soul in a veil.

I chose to close my heart to all love.

I wanted my soul to die forever.

I thought I would not write again.

I thought I would not love again

but I awaken now

from a darkness greater than the longest night

that is beyond the Light of all stars.

Within every moment and energy entity

there is a Light that is eternal.

This Light loves even the deepest Darkness

because without the Darkness 

the Light could not exist.

I wanted only to live in the Light

or if not that then only in the Darkness.

I cannot always live in the bliss of Light

or always in the sorrow of Darkness.

Sometimes the comforting protective Darkness

is more loving than the harsh burning Light.

The Light loves to rest in the Darkness

as the Darkness finds rest in the Light.

The dawn and the twilight

each loves the Light and the Darkness

both with a hungering and a surrendering kiss.

The Light comes for the Darkness 

and the Darkness comes for the Light

because the Darkness wants to be less lonely 

and the Light wants parts of itself to be unknown. 

The poems come again unlooked for

like remembered dreams.

The poems and dreams come because they live 

and they want to be loved.

And we exist because we 

are of Darkness and of Light,

because we and all things

want to love.

 

{All Dionysos Maskaleris writings copyright or copyright pending}

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