Shadows

A poem

The deepest dark in which you dwell
I know this gloom, I know it well
A refuge from the world above 
That left you starved for warmth and love

Here you’ve dwelt for long enough
The thought of more seems but a bluff
But now I’ve come to you to tell
You need not feed this living hell

There may yet be a better way
To close the night and greet the day
‘Tis always darkest ‘fore the dawn
Although you feel too far gone

The way I offer may give pause
For on your soul the shadow gnaws
The way ahead goes not up high
In deepest fathoms does it lie

A contradiction this may seem
A trick, a lie, a terrible dream
Few would dare to tread this path
Lest they face their spirit’s wrath

Yet heed the abyss within you must
And with your soul reforge its trust
In deepest chasms must you scour
To name the shadow drains its power

So let ambition be your torch
Your qualms and ills the flame will scorch
Heed this call, if you accept
The journey begins with but a step