Light in a Dark World

Maia Mandel, Guest writer

Sometimes, the world is dark,

Without seeing, there’s no way to make your mark.

The people stumble around and fall,

We’re like corpses, us all.

Sometimes, I blink, to make sure I’m not sleeping,

Feeling all alone, my soul is seeping.t

I turn and turn, looking for a color,

But I see none, because the world is like no other.

I cradle my head in my hands, going crazy,

Why am I the only one not lazy?

I open my mouth to speak to the world:

But all I hear is silence, not a word unfurled.

Right when my heart was ceding:

I heard a creeping, a creeping.

I turned and my eyes burned:

For there was a flicker of light, returned.

I smiled and stood, looking around,

Did anyone else see what I had found?

I took the light and watched it spread,

Now we all were no longer dead.