Feeling Dark
March 14, 2010 at 2:03 am | Posted in Voices | 6 CommentsI’ve been feeling dark lately. Not feeling dark as in brooding or a malicious mood but feeling as in a sensation, an occurrence or inquisitive touch. I’ve come to appreciate the darkness. I’ve learned to embrace the absence of light as an opportunity to experience being without seeing.
The light has so many fans. Songs and poems abound to admire its virtues. Painters and photographers trade on every aspect of its nature. Capturing it, manipulating or directing it, they harness and use its power in creating art. But included with the all the wonders of light is the mandate that one must perceive it at its direction. While light is used for all the wonderful properties it holds, and the colors it releases, it can also be blinding, its brightness obscuring its true source. It can be forced into the eye to the point of torture. While the light can sustain life, the inability to escape the glare from time to time can render a life burnt and sterile.
Sometimes I prefer the dark or the darkness. Much maligned for its lack of brilliance or its ability to hide the demons, I think the darkness has so much to offer if one can apprehend it. What can not be seen can be imagined and therein lies the glory of the darkness. It is a medium for internal reflection for it casts not its own shape. It has no margins so it can hold whatever you put in it. You can make of it what you will. It is a blank canvas, available for your inclinations. The darkness causes feeling. When you walk into a dark evening you are forced to neglect your eye and embrace your other senses. Every texture under foot must be considered, every sound is amplified as you struggle to perceive its meaning and its source. Even the slightest change in temperature becomes stark and obtrusive.
I like to experience the darkness. It brings me closer to who I am to be without an image to carry around. When there is no reflection in the mirror, it holds no power over you nor can it cast a representation towards you. Being freed from that yoke, one can indulge in the reflection of the soul, the heart, the true self. We all look good in the dark.
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Yes, we do all look good in the dark! Due to your lovely poem about your Grampa’s gun, I will be posting a poets award on my blog for you in the morning!
Comment by suzicate— March 14, 2010 #
Thank you. That is so nice. I will cherish it.
D
Comment by 20milesfromnowhere— March 14, 2010 #
Another great job big boy! Keep it rollin’!
Comment by jllo— March 15, 2010 #
Thanks for the encouragement, I am truely enjoying playing with these words.
D
Comment by 20milesfromnowhere— March 16, 2010 #
In my life, I think I have had a tendency to avoid the dark but, I find as I grow older and more mature the dark (literally or figuratively) isn’t quite so scary any more. Amazing post! Thanks for sharing!
Comment by klmx2— March 16, 2010 #
“What can not be seen can be imagined and therein lies the glory of the darkness.” I love this line!
I don’t, however, agree that the darkness hides the demons – quite the opposite actually! Heee heeee!!
Honestly, Dwayne, you have such an imaginative and creative mind and the way you can get me to think about something I don’t normally think about, like the dark and what it holds, or like what a fishing pole might think, is truly a gift and I really appreciate you sharing it with your friends!
And I thought you were a simple ole’ fisherman…..never knew how much that brain of yours works…..Dwayne the Brain!!! Heee heee!!!
All seriousness though….you have a true gift and I think you waited too long to share it!!
Keep ‘em comin’!!!!
Comment by Kathy Pierce— April 6, 2010 #