{"sf1_id":523900,"sf2_id":"Rm0PXPzm","title":"I lie here in the Darkness","author":"Contrast","words":338,"posted_at":"2013-04-08T09:57:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","darkness","light"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/523900-i-lie-here-in-the-darkness","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rm0PXPzm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4f/bf/4fbf9861-9ab5-48f5-bec6-3fd2b92b0604","description":"This is a poem I wrote in the dead of night many years ago.","content":" **I lie here in the Darkness**\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI lie here in the Darkness\n\nstaring up at a black hole I know to be a dead light bulb\n\nThe only real Light comes from the streetlamp outside\n\nshining through the venetian blinds\n\nThere is not much\n\nI always keep them shut tight\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI hate the Light and the Light hates me\n\nit burns my eyes and chars my skin\n\nThe hateful Sun\n\nit works its way into my brain and makes me think of where I've been\n\nand all the things I've done\n\nWhereas the Darkness enshrouds me\n\nprotects me\n\ncomforts me\n\nIt is the only one who truly understands\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI lie here in the Darkness\n\nstaring up at a black hole I know to be a dead light bulb\n\nI can hear the girl in the next room scratching at the walls\n\nbut I can also hear the Moth outside\n\ntapping against my window\n\ndrowning out her calls\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI was lying in the darkness\n\nstaring up at a black hole I knew to be a dead light bulb\n\nbut now I am outside\n\nstaring up at the Moths encircling the streetlamp\n\nI do not know how I came here\n\nand there is blood on my hands\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nMaybe they were right about me\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI stand here in the street\n\nstaring up at the Moths encircling the streetlamp\n\nThey are so beautiful\n\nbut I hate them\n\nI hate them because they love the Light\n\neven though it burns them\n\neven though it kills them\n\nI hate them\n\nBut am I a Moth?\n\nOr am I the Light?\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nMaybe they were right about me\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI was standing in the street\n\nStaring up at the Moths encircling the streetlamp\n\nbut now I am sitting in a cell with my eyes shut tight\n\nlistening to the buzz of my fluorescent Light\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI am sitting in a cell with my eyes shut tight\n\nand I wonder\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI wonder if there are Moths around that Light\n\n  \n  \n\n"}