The struggle of dealing with friendships and feelings from one teens view. |
Have You Seen the Light? Have you seen the light? I have. I once saw a world of darkness and depression. I saw a world shallow and deserted. I saw a world where at times life did not seem worth living. I felt stuck, lonesome in the labyrinth I myself constructed. But then I saw the light. She was beautiful. She was bright. She was the sun radiating energy. And I was the desperate Icarus chasing the unobtainable. As I came closer to the light I felt I could join a new part of the world. I felt closer to these celestial bodies that exist without a care for the world. Little did I know that the closer I got, the more my conceit consumed Me, my wings, and my everything. Could I ever obtain the light? In the penultimate step to the light I fall and the light leaves me. I fall farther than ever before. I fall into the abyss that seems oh so much darker than ever before. The darkness and depression relapse worse than ever. Have you seen the light? I have and I am now blinded because of it. I must stumble forward to escape the consuming darkness. Blinded by the brightness of the light I walk forward. Have you seen the light? I have and I am blinded because of it. Even blinded, the sight of joy, happiness, and hope remain. I have lost my light, but even so with the after images of the light etched in, I stumble forward, albeit disoriented, to find a new light. |