you don’t know darkness unless it has consumed you, breathed you in until you were kissed raw and bloody. you can’t recognize it until it has taken you away from everything and everyone you have ever loved and cared about. it tends to be cruel, that’s why it is called terror by many. it tears you apart from the inside out – no one will ever notice. darkness is not so quickly overpowered by light. it takes time, that’s why it is so dangerous. once it has overpowered you there isn’t much you can do. of course, you can turn on the light and hope for the best. hope for the shimmers of gold to take over your skin and the feathers on your back to levitate you far away. but darkness is cruel. it will overpower. and you’ll be trapped alone as you bathe in the black water of your own wrath.