Darkness
by
Peter Andrew Gunnis
If life is like a box of chocolates
Then death must be a banquet
To exist in this way
Time in retreat
People say never open your heart
Never trust, never love
A solitary animal
Forever in the dark
To live upon this crowded planet
And never to have true joy
Must be the classic tragedy
Yet too many are in the play
A dark world is where I belong
No light to show the way
A place where life is real
Not this badly timed joke
Don’t fret for my soul
Nor pray for deliverance
For I am already here
Just ask the darkness
