Back Into The Blackness Poem by Heather Kemper

Back Into The Blackness
How do I go on
living my life?
When the light is extinguished
no glimpse of something bright.
How do I go back
to living all alone?
To a place of no love
of a loneliness that's home.
To a void that is consuming
all that is bright.
Where I was worthless
forgotten
a replaceable site.
Now that I've felt it
that love that was shown.
The feeling it gave me
the warmth that I've known.
How do I go back
to that world that was so dark?
Not ache from the wanting
of the world I was in.
Can you tell me how to go back
to that world and still live?
Can you tell my heart to forget
that feeling that was rare?
To be again a mistake
forgotten and not there.

1/23/2007