[Tyr Zalo Hawk]: 712.Challenges.The 100 Challenge.Dark

Black.
The color of eternity.
The shade of the universe, of night, of shadows, of tortured souls, of everything that stars will never be, of nothingness, and of negative energy given form and shape.
The hue of emptiness.

It is only in blackness that we know the value of the light, so far off when our souls are trapped in darkness. This blackness is all consuming. It’s something that some people try so vainly to escape from, because they know not the consequences of stepping into the light.
Once, I was foolish enough to be tempted by that distant brightness. I thought What could be the harm in a moment’s reprieve from my unlit prison? I thought How could such a gentle energy be anything but a welcome distraction from these suffocating shadows? I thought that I could just walk into the light, and that would be that.
What a fool I was.
The moment I left my cavern of void I felt the scorching of white on my skin. My comforting heaviness was lifted and all sense of stability was lost. Then the colors, as vivid and piercing as the knives, rushed into my eyes and sent my reeling backwards into the waiting arms of the home I’d always known.
For days I dared not open my eyes, lest I have to witness such a horrible thing as dandelion yellow again. I did not allow myself to leave the comfort of a frigid pool of crystalline water that rested in the back of the cave, lest cruel warmth deep back under my skin. I begged for forgiveness and solace from the torturous memories that my one folly had caused me, but relief would not answer to my prayers.
Heed to my words, and stay far from the light. Stay as far as you can from it. For it is only in darkness that we can hope to survive.


© Tyr Hawkaluk (2004-Present)