(Poem) From the Darkness Within

The kid from the dark room

says, “Mr. can you help me?”

“No, I don’t want to. Want you to feel the drown

with my morning eyes that’s stuck in the dark,

and the darkness within, from which you were born,

born in the glimpse of light, but trapped in the shadows.

No, I don’t want to, for the light may pass

and the glimpse of hope may disappear,

lost in the vast horizon,

where the sun shifts its light, to make way for the dark.

For the darkness that defines us, and makes us pessimistic.

No, I cannot help, for if I do, you’ll see the blazing light.

The light that’s meant to end the wars, ended up causing them.

You are happy in the forsaken darkness

where you were supposed to be.

For the innocent eyes that meant for the dark

will be blinded with the cruel light.”

By Akbar Fida Anonta