The Darkness & The Light Poem by James Grengs

I try to hold,
But the darkness breaks
My walls, and leaves me
Defenseless.
In, rushing silently
Like a thousand horsemen,
The darkness floods my soul.
I want to scream in terror,
But I cannot, for the darkness,
Like the cold hard vacuum
Of space,
Has sucked away my breath.
So there I stand, silently horrified,
Yet utterly unable to do anything
For myself.
Then,
Without any warning,
A brilliant light floods the crevices of my soul,
Which even I, in the darkness,
Had forgotten existed.
The light dispels in an instant
The darkness that had taken years
To take hold,
And remains,
Causing me to feel
Lightheaded.
Again, I want to scream,
This time, not in agony,
But in ecstasy.
But the light holds itself
Across my mouth,
And I cannot speak.
Instead, I bask forever
In the light which
Came when I didn’t ask for it.
But it came when I needed it most,
And for that,
I love the light.