Darkness Poem by Jeremiah Wimbrough

My light and my life

provided me hope for a future,

a reason to live

and the strength to exist.

Suddenly extinguished,

taken away without warning.

I was abandoned,

left in the darkness

trying to survive

searching for any glimmer

on the distant horizon.

I stand precariously

on a piece of solid ground

barely large enough for my feet.

Around me, a vast expanse

of desolation and emptiness

for as far as I can tell.

It waits

with extending arms

to engulf and surround me

in a permanent shadow.

I remain tenuously balanced

on this small bit of solid footing

Providing me the last vestiges
of hope,

Unsure where to turn

or how to find an escape.

No path in sight,

it has decayed into the abyss.

No light to guide my footsteps,

it has been withdrawn.

In complete blackness.

I close my eyes

waiting to fall.



A light appears before me.

No.

From within me.

I discover

a brilliance inside

An internal source of strength,
power

and illumination.

This force surges through my
body

filling me with courage.

I open my eyes once more in
the darkness

finally lose my balance,

and descend

into the eternal night.

But in falling, I discover

that I possess wings.

With new courage, my own light,

and wings to save me

from the everlasting darkness,

I take flight

high above the waiting chasm

towards a faint glimmer

far on the horizon

and hope.