From a Dark Time

I like to read old thoughts...words typed and saved in a folder on my desktop. It's not always a happy experience, but it's sometimes a learning experience. And reading through some things I wrote in late 2009 was certainly thought provoking. Here was one such piece.... Perhaps my real appreciation of this comes in realising how far I have come since that dark time.

I feel nothing in the dark

And less in the light

When my sight is

Blighted with sadness

On faces and strangers

In places I knew

Once upon a time.

And there’s you.

Smiling. Lighting up

The room as you do

Just by being there.

And I want to care

For you as I know

You do for me.

But I can’t.

And you see it.

And you know.

But you won’t give up.

I love you for that.

But you have to go.