Our Fascination with the Dark Side

 

 

 

Our curiosity joins the dance

Through every avenue of chance

Leaders to our own despair

But still we crave to visit there

In secret corners of our mind

The explorational urge will find

It's own trajectory

 

Away from stars and sun we turn

The miracles of light we spurn

Until we loose that zest for life

And fill our days with pain and strife

So every joy becomes a task

We hide our pain and wear a mask

We sigh at dreams so unfulfilled

Vision blinkered, laughter stilled

And life becomes a mockery

 

Until with every maze explored

In time we can now ill afford

We sit us down to nurse despair

Our world relentlessly unfair

We grieve a life that might have been

The ghouls that weighed us down unseen

Our tortured hearts gush forth our tears

Our tangled minds propel our fears

Existence just a mystery

 

And when at night we pace the floor

Our pain displayed at every door

And shock waves cause our world to crumble

Every sweet desire to tumble

Thwarted by our need to wake

Our caring soul: So blind are we

We miss what any fool can see

The mess is of our making

 

For when there's nowhere else to go

And tired limbs are aching so

When willpower runs with each new day

And joy escapes along the way

We must not look to foe or friend

For aid towards our struggles end

In swirling chaos, depth of night

We must look up and find the Light

It's ours for the taking

 

Rosa Montague