Flower in Darkness

The darkness descends

Envelopes you

Takes you

You resist it not and sink into it

Down and down

Until there feels to be only one escape

From the blackness

That has sucked out your light, your life

But you are not the darkness

You are the beauty, don't you see?

You see the world's pain

You feel the world's pain

You see the unfairness,

The unjust

The evil

The darkness is the pain of the world

But you are not the pain

You are the beauty the world needs

You are the flower
A pained world needs

Do not take yourself

Nor let yourself stay in darkness

Where the world cannot see your beauty

Don't you see?

The world needs flowers like you

You are not alone

Only in the darkness are you alone

But there are others like you

Together there could be a field of flowers

To allow yourself to succumb to the darkness

Would allow the world to become dark

And more people would be in the dark

It is hard, I know

But with beauty can come courage

Bring your flower into the light
Let us water and nourish it

Let it blossom

Let your courage and beauty bloom

You are a flower for a reason

Delicate, yes

But within your delicate petals

Is a beauty and courage

That the world needs

Do not succumb to the dark

And make the world a darker place

For your absence