Into The Darkness. Poem by Merlin Mwaura

Into the Darkness.

Light has come and died,
The echoes of silence faded…
To this artlessness…
Where no colour permeates,
And a long long journey has started,
Into the deep,
Far sadness...
of this darkness.

Into the dark the sound has faded,
The world has disappeared,
For direction we pray,
For hope,
As a step is made,
by us,
by many,
Further into the unknown,
Here where lacks inspiration,
Picking little solids in our fingers,
Painting and scribing what we are feeling…
preserving ourselves in song,
in art,
in poetry...
in our heart's throng.

Into the darkness,
Feeling exposed and vulnerable,
Grabbing from what we can’t see,
Coiling together,
The fingers into our fists,
Punching this hollow air,
Shouting at no one.
We know the tears are flowing,
When our fear is growing…

We have not fallen,
Or know if we are lost.
So we keep together…
Guarding one another!
But the darkness has started,
A long long journey,
Into the deep…
Far parts of me.