Writing Prompt

Where there is light, there is always a shadow close behind.

It creeps close by your feet and makes you fear the path ahead.

What if I fall?

What if it’s the wrong path?

What if I’m not good enough?

But the truth remains; regardless which path is chosen, which path is right, the shadow will always make you fear the fall.

The shadow is out to trip you, hurt you, make you doubt the only thing...

Where there is light there is also a shadow beside

The darkness surrounds me,

sticky and thick,

drawing a line in the sand

human, or something else I’m missing

Is it mine?

I wonder, always sensing it near,

fear whispering,

is this my past creeping in?

Or is it my present,

anger left to linger,

feeding what should have been.

Light or darkness

I feel it watching,

waiting for the cracks to form.

...

It is most certainly odd to say

But I think it’s important

That you know what happens today

There is nothing I want more

No greater wish of mine

Than to have the time to explore

But the sands fall away

Slowly but surely it falls

For it could be no other way

It’s true, I’ve come to find

That where there is light

There’s a shadow close behind...

She bends down to rinse her face.

A refreshing way to start they day, intentional.

She was up before her alarm this morning.

Energized, focused, and motivated with a sole goal in plan sight.

Not like last week. Something has changed.

Was it the week worth of sunny days forecasted ahead of her?

Or the sudden desire to just…live?!

Either way she didnt care, she would ride this wave.

Springing f...

Where there is light,

There is always a shadow close behind.

A metallic flood creeps up the spine,

And whispers are told and taught to bite.

But where our shadows lurk and creep,

Remember sweet child,

It's the light that gave us the forms we see.

Hope?

Lies!

Truly a false sense of sight.

So hold your sorrows.

Keep your tears in your eyes.

For she twists and turns in a lying dance.

The light, ...

Where there is light there is always a shadow close behind

Unless the sun stops shining

But in which way do you interpret that?

Is everything shadowless,

Or is everything your shadow?...

Balance

Life is about balance

Everything happens with reason

The good

The bad

One simply cannot be without the other

The bad teaches us lessons

The good gives us hope

But without having felt the bad

You would never appreciate the good

Without having the good

The bad would seem all consuming

Balance

There can be no enjoyment of sunshine

Without night

No light without darkness

For when there is lig...

Where there is light, there is always a shadow close behind

A darkness you have never seen

Adoration at your hands, which you deem to good to touch

Do you know how they long to be you?

In the night that is life, you are the morning, midday, afternoon sun

How you always seem to be above

A brush of the hand, like starlight, dismissing

Do you genuinely not know?

The bottom, Earth’s core, a small y...

Where there is light,

there is always a shadow close behind.

I trail the trim

of glow brimming her skirts.

I step so close

the burn whispers on my skin,

fire pushing my finger back.

My patience running thin.

I grasp at her hair,

light fading through my palm.

I meet her gaze,

eyes blinded by its glare.

The shadows come upon me,

tears the only burn left

lingering from my stare.

Where there is ligh...

Where there is light, there is always a shadow close behind

Where there is a white cat, there is always a black cat close behind

Where there is a murder, there is always a body

With every blood stain is a red pool

With every glimmering eye of magic is a curse behind the eyes of the witches and warlocks

The leaves fall in a flurry of orange, red, and yellow but their colors fade and they rot i...