Reading Light (POEM)

Reading Light

I am the darkness.

I am the end of the world.

I am the stopping of clocks; the silence of tick-tock, tick-tock.

I am the black hole that can swallow galaxies.

I am the question: “Am I awake, or is this all a dream?”

I am the absence of light.

I am the eternal night.

I am the one who has been proved right, for

I am so much more than you ever imagined.

I am present at your moment of defeat.

I am the voice that haunts your purgatory.

I am the only one who can show you the way.

I am the hope you turn to only at the last.

I embody the fires of hell.

I am what my dreams have made real.

I am the crushing might of all the Gods.

I am the bringer of doom; a cascade of wrath.

I am the slayer of kings and destruction of authority.

I am a decimating force more powerful than nature herself.

I am … Oh.

The lamp just needs a new bulb.