Confronting My Darkness

Looking inward
Past anger...past tears and through despair
Into the bleakest segments of my very soul
Is a darkness

Do I dare?
Should I explore it?
It could possess great power
It could consume my entire body and mind

It can not be ignored
Smiles won’t push it down any further
It can’t be erased by laughter
It will be there…always…..waiting

I should go there and confront it
I should meet it and look it in the eye
I might learn to embrace and accept it
For it belongs to me…in me….on me…always

There is a message in this darkness
It whispers to me in my solitude
Though opening that door frightens me
I have no choice….the desire is stronger than I

I must open my own Pandora’s box
I will meet myself there
And allow the darkness to tell its tale
For this tale is part of me….it speaks to my truth

And the truth shall set me free