Burn the Midnight Oil
There is darkness within you
born from the light
it is within your heart
all things grow
from seeds that lie within you
waiting for the waters
of your attention
what will you grow
do you have a choice at all
will you let darkness die
how then would you know
how far light spreads
how would you compare
and realize the beauty of each
This sunrise
is it not more beautiful
because it happens
after darkness
each thing has a balance
learn your place
there are those among you
who feed their pain
and lose what it means
to be truly joyful
and others live only for joy
a hollow twisted joy
a blighted emptiness
that has no substance.
why must you live your lives
avoiding one part of you
and embracing the other
why must you mutate
the natural balance of your self
and deviate from what nature plans
within you and around you
life is meant to be
a constant conundrum
a changing of states
from moment to moment
relentlessly sweeping you along
on tides of change
that rise and fall
burn the midnight oil
look at the stars and feel
how they live within darkness
but burn brighter because they do
see how they always end their lives
spectacularly
showing the universe
they lived well
be more like the star
for that is what you are
within your beating heart
the same light burns
and around you
the same darkness reigns supreme.