Writing Prompt

Darkness.

It was mostly feared upon among my clan. Nobody wanted anything to do with it and would do anything to avoid it.

At

Any

Cost.

Going towards the dark was betrayal. You were a traitor to the community.

But part of me wonders, is being curious that bad a thing?

I mean… the dark is just an effect. How could it be so dangerous to us?

I stood in front of the dark space lingering be...

Sometimes I find myself surrounded by the darkness.

Swallowed by its cold emptiness.

Numbed by its embraced.

Until I no longer feel anything.

I don’t seek it, but it finds me.

A reminder that I’m trapped.

Enslaved to the power it holds over me.

The darkness comforts me with loneliness.

It wraps me in hopelessness without a way to escape.

I’m chained to it.

When freedom comes I choose th...

Like me do you seek the dark?

The cool embrace of nothing

The uncertainty of surrounding

But the comfort of feeling free

Do you seek the dark

For it is grounding

It strips half your senses

Yet somehow that is calming

Do you seek the dark

For its element of fear

Do you hope to see something you hate

Or do you just want to be scared

Do you seek the dark

For its companionship

For I am always ...

I am not the kind of girl

you bring home to your mother.

I’m the kind you drag into your bed

to forget someone else—

and then can’t forget.

I am sharp edges wrapped in velvet.

I am the echo of every woman

who never got a soft ending.

I love him like a drowning thing

loves the hand that pulls it under.

I begged for his breath

even while I held mine,

waiting to be left again.

Because that’s what t...

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...