top of page

Light Up The Darkness


Acrylic Painting by Mckenna Buckley



Adrift.


Dark silence fills my eyes

and encloses the space around me.

Arms outstretched

I grasp for what is known…

an opening

a doorway

stability

the light.

Where is the light?

I do not know

for naked eyes cannot see.

Fear,

the mind–killer,

wanting its way

with me

again.

Haunting my steps

with fractured uncertainty,

waiting

to consume me

again.


Dread swirls

in the eye of the dark tornado

as wrath unfolds the great unrest.

Shall I wither?

Befall an unconsciousness slumber?

Not here, not now

in this unforeseen place of the dark cascade.


Deep within

I venture down,

beyond the dark

I will not hide.


With balanced conviction

and steady calm,

inner stillness

does chaos meet.

My breath, my heart, my love

my light…


From the smallest ray,

out of darkness

internally led

my life will be.

Comments


bottom of page