Light fills life with joy. The world seems to be a vibrant and colourful place with light.
No cares and no worries.
Then one day the light begins to fade. At first you don’t notice. Colours start to become less vibrant.
As if they are fleeing an unknown attacker. The Joy seems to seep away from you.
The vibrancy cascades into darkness.
And you are lost in the darkness. So you start searching for the light you once knew so well. The light you took for granted. The light that guided you home during those moments in life that seemed unbearable.
But all there is the void that is the dark, where no light shines.
But you hope you can catch a glimpse of the light, to catch the joy you once felt.
Sometimes you catch hold of a strand of light, before it slips through your fingers like sand slips through fingers.
You slowly rediscover the path that leads to the light. But the darkness is waiting to catch you off guard and tempt you down the paths that lead away from light, joy and indeed life.
But you remember the light when it shone brightly in your mind.
That memory gives you power to fight the dark. Though it is a seemingly hopeless desire or hope that drives you forward on the search to way out of the darkness and into the light.
You hope you can walk amongst the light once more where everyone else seems to be.
But the dark is always waiting for you, like a thief in the night.