You wake up and as you roll out of bed
you face the dark.
Your heart sinks
and asks
can we stop?
can we not move
forward?
But now,
with years of facing the darkness
you now have the strength
the knowledge
the power
to remind yourself
reassure yourself
comfort yourself
(yes it’s comforting)
The darkness is not really outside.
Well, maybe some of it is.
But the heaviest, the most pitch black darkness of all
is inside.
Because it’s always there.