Longing From The Shadows by HLZ

The world
It rocks in the balance
Dark, light, unknown, unfelt

We walk through the world
Shadows…
Dark, devoid of detail
missing the bits we search for with all we are.

Wandering through the night
Searching…
Looking for another spark…
A kindred

Like the sun, bright beyond belief

For this we seek…
a spark in another
a feeling of self

Our lives we waste this way
looking for a light in the black
We never find it so we endure the misery of the search

Neither happiness in finding
nor contentedness in aloneness

And this misery we believe we must endure
The misery drawing the very life from our skin and bones
Misery left as the sole element of our blood.