dark / light
you destroy me
and i do not know why, but still
i piece my body back together
and i hope and i wait and i pray — for anything, something
because deep down
i hope
this isn’t
the end
.
night falls for six years
.
you pull me out of the darkness
and i am raw fresh out of cracking red egg yolk
it hurts, gods, how it hurts
— but for once, i am not numb
and i feel
the sky
on my face
.
i walk
.
you tug on my hand, little by little
into the wind and past the swaying bright trees
and my wings they grow, painfully under my sun soaked skin
i have jumped into the river
i have seen my soul
i do not know myself anymore
.
i do not know you
.
but i know
that i want you
and it hurts
it hurts
it hurts
.
you hold me. the moon is full
our limbs tangle, into one
a gentle touch
from my dreamlike traveler
i do not know if it is real
but all is quiet now.
.
and i breathe again.
.
crickets in the night time buzzing with life
you are the sun and i am the flames
grass tickles your cheek where i kissed you months ago
you open me up until there is nothing left to see
my debonair visitor, whose pain shines as bright as mine
.
i love you
i love you
i —
.
you tell me
that i do not have to do this
alone
.
you say
i am enough, and always will be
even with this carried inkblot pain that broke
the soul
in me, one day
.
when i try
to digest
the words
i feel the life return to me, in the colors
of spring, gold light
on my skin
the birds
in the air
how bright it all is
.
how i believe you now, lover
.
— light lay within us all along.
dark / light is a poem written for the #protagonistpoem challenge where authors are encouraged to write a poem from the perspective of their main character. The protagonist featured in this poem is Sol from To Wield The Darkest Night by Beau Van Dalen.
