Writing Prompt

Joel was never afraid of the dark. But he probably should have been. He got himself in a mess of trouble when we went away to school in Georgia. Like any other eighteen year old man, Joel liked to have fun. Maybe too much. He went to study journalism but started writing what would become a story he never planned on. What Joel didn’t realize was that having fun and living the party life came at a c...

Most people fear the dark, but I seek it.

It’s the only place my insecurities can’t be seen.

It’s the only place where I don’t feel judged because nobody can see me.

In the dark,

I am hidden.

My tears are concealed,

But they are still there.

In the dark, nobody will be able to see my body that I’m not satisfied with yet,

(It’s a work in progress).

They can’t see that my clothes aren’t expensive...

Trauma. That is what comes as I giddily stare outside as the sun dips below its horizon.

“Its almost time!” I whisper to my older sister.

It’s just me and her, our parents long gone. Not lost, not dead. But abandoned. We abandoned them. The opposite of what usually happens. The last streams of light fade. And at last the one thing that makes me strong, makes me brave comes. The dark. Others fear...

Sometimes in life we meet people who don’t follow the social norms as the rest of us. As people many of us are drawn to light, or sources of so like a moth to a bulb inside a lampshade. Many of us are drawn to the bright warm things the light signals to us in our minds. However for some it’s quite the opposite. There’s a level of peace in the darkness. A quiet still comfort that only exists once y...

Humans fear the dark. It’s in our wiring ancestral, primal, clawing at the back of the brain like a locked door rattling in a storm.

But some of us… we seek it.

Not for answers. Not for power. For peace.

The light’s where the lies live. Politicians in pressed suits. Lovers with plastic smiles. Friends who talk in daylight and forget your name at dusk.

But in the dark? No masks. Just silence. Just ...

I want to go into the dark

I’m tired of the light.

It’s not bad, right?

I just want some peace

Comfort

Silence

I won’t be gone.

I’ll just be… in the corner

The little attic

AirPods in

Can’t hear anything but the music

Trying to tune out the world

Escape my thoughts

Just for

a second.

Bc I’m abt to have an emotional breakdown

A mental breakdown

Be overstimulated

Lose my mind,

My senses

Dissocia...

Most fear the dark

Like the unknown

Others seek it

The thrill of the hunt

It consumes them

Eroding who they were

Until nothing can return

Plugging them into madness

Hysteria clouding there view

And when there gone

All are glad

Just don’t forget

Something put them down that path

They weren’t always

The monster that you knew...

Before we could truly comprehend the world, there was the One. The One who ventured first. Who took the first steps into the unknown.

Their chin raised high and chest puffed out as they blindly stepped forward, into the darkness.

The others hid behind in fear and anticipation… but nothing ever came. There was no monster, no unimaginable horrors.

One after the other, One would step forward only ...

When I seeked darkness is when I started to grow

My shadow is where I found my soul

In the darkness I became whole

Walking in my fears

Eyes full of tears

Is where my seeds started to bloom

Sitting with my gloom

Reprogramming from the doom

A beautiful energy began to loom

My third eye started to glow as my eyes closed

My heart space felt at peace with the darkness

I’m no longer the inner chi...

I seek the dark

That they all fear

But one must search

One must find the dark

To explore it

It shall be me

Or perhaps

An Expeditioner

One who must explore

Beyond us

I shall find it

I shall find the darkness

Who we all fear

So I’ll go

Beyond

Into the Outer Zone

Where no one’s been before

I’ll walk and walk

All alone

Til’ _she_ comes upon me

She’s Rayzea

Red hair

Slim figure

A common

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