“Come a little closer,” the darkness said, ” I want to see your light.”
“What is there to see?” I quivered.
The darkness looked bemused and took a step back as not to frighten me so.
“Your perceptions of me are unfounded, rooted amidst desperation in trying to understand who you are.
You are as much afraid of me as you are of your light. Those heavy emotions that permeate your soul when left to despair, powerlessness and hatred make me something out to be that I am not. I don’t fuel those emotions within you. You do. You give those emotions power over you and then project blame onto me. And all I want to do is simply help you understand the balance between your light and myself. And in order to do that, I need to get closer to you. Sometimes that may not be so comfortable, for both of us. As afraid of me as you are, I find myself a little frightened of your light too.”
Seeing how vulnerable darkness was becoming,
I walked closer to it, more curious of its nature.
“How could you be afraid of my light? Look at all the harm you have perpetuated throughout humanity?”
“I didn’t cause humanity to suffer. Humans and their interpretations of me, their ability to choose – that is what caused their suffering.
I have been and always will be a silent partner in the midst of creation, only ignited by what humans fear most, and acted upon by misguided thoughts.
From the moment your soul felt abandoned by the Divine, you conjured up a manifestation of me to fill that void. My voice wasn’t mine anymore. It became some construct of the collective used to further separate you from yourself, humanity from its collective soul.
I search the universe, haunted by humanity’s need to make me something I am not.
I yearn to be that silent partner again in the midst of creation. To stand by your side, holding hands with your light, understanding it as much as I want to understand myself.”
I paused for a moment and then extended my hand.
Darkness, even more humbled by my offering, reached for it and came closer to me.
“I’d like to get to know you better.” I said.
“I’d like that too,” the darkness smiled.
As we held hands, our fears slowly began melting away, and the nature of the universe felt like home again.