Darkness

Chase the light, they said.

Chase the positive, they said.

But who knew, from chasing the light every time,

I was drowning in darkness.

Now I only look at the light.

No longer chasing.

I was sinking deeply in the ocean of thoughts,

maybe willingly,

maybe with no choice.

I sank so deep in the ocean’s dark,

with no hope of rising high enough to see the light again.

Perhaps the light has always betrayed me,

while darkness embraced me.

Maybe the light is good for the world.

But for me,

darkness has been there in all my seasons.