“Light of Darkness”
By Ellene Warner ’26
I’m in the middle of the darkness,
All alone, no one else.
Needing someone, wishing for something,
Drowning in bitterness to myself.
You can spend years,
Doing nothing but sob and cry,
Pushing the fear behind you,
Just wanting to give up, surrendering a somber sigh,
And then I fell to the ground,
Crying tears of sweet and salt,
Because it hurts so much,
That my heart has been broken for so long.
And I’m wiping away tears,
Letting loose my pain,
I want someone to feel like me,
I can’t be alone, I can’t handle the strain,
But then I realize,
I still have something left,
For there to be things at their worst in the world,
There also has to be things at their best.
In the bitter salt of life,
I found something sweet,
I looked and found the light,
Hidden inside me,
I was never alone,
I will always be surrounded,
By waves of ocean-founded peace,
My little island is grounded.
So I got up on my feet and kept walking,
Head held to the sky,
And I used to be in the middle of the darkness,
But now the world is so bright,
Underneath the pain,
Way below the strife,
In the middle of the darkness,
I uncovered a light.