darkness

the dark is generous.

its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others.
the dark protects us from what we dare not know.

its second gift is comforting illusions: the ease of gentle dreams in nights embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in days harsh light. But the greatest of its comforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. beacuse it is day that is temporary.
day is the illusion.

its third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinate black through wich they wheel, the dark embaces the light, and brings it forth from the center of its own self.
with each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

the dark is generous, and it is patient.

it is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips content into passion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. the dark can be patient, because the slightest drops of rain will cause those seeds to sprout.

the rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in wich they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the stars that give them light. the darks patience is infinate.
eventually, even stars burn out.

the dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins.

it always wins because it is everywhere. it is in the wood that burns on the hearth, and in the kettle on the fire, it is under the chair and under the table and under the sheets on the bed. walk in the mid-day sun, and the dark is with you, clinging to the soles of your feet.
the brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

the dark is patient, and it is generous, and it always wins - but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
love is more than a candle.
love can ignite the stars.



random. just thought i'd spin that by you all.