Living A Lie Poem by Amy Fifita

Darkness shelters me from uncomfort,
As I push myself more within it.
The light may feel nice at the moment,
But in my experience it always hurts you.
At least in the dark you know it'll hurt you.
Light will tear you apart, leaving you breathless on the floor,
But if you're already there then it hurts less.
But I know that's not true,
Because I'm living a lie.
Because the higher you go up,
The less you have to climb when you fall.
Darkness is just a comfort zone,
A comfort zone that blinds me from the truth,
That deafens me from hearing what is true.
But my empathy is slowly fading,
For myself, for a life worth living.
And I know and don't care,
That the life I'm living is just a demonic lie.