# The Dark and Light Inside (A Vessel) 

## October 1, 2009

Life is merely a dream.

I do not exist.

Not really at least.

I'm just a body

A vessel for others 

to consume me.

Light and dark cannot exist

without each other.

For without light, how does one see dark?

Still, the two cannot coexist. 

And it holds true

even in me.

On the days that the light consumes

the dark has no power.

But when the dark overwhelms,

not even the strongest ray of light can pierce.

Two people

Two lives.

In a war to capture me

When the dark side takes over

the hope of light

becomes no more.

For it didn't exist.

That wasn't me, but it

was only a dream.

And when all feelings

of darkness and pain fade away

They vanish completely

for the time.

As if they never were.

Because, for me, 

they weren't.

It was someone else in me.

And there,

in the time between the dark and light.

Like the sunrise and sunset.

The two sides,

the two controllers

struggle for their victories over my soul.

And amidst the fight,

for only a moment,

I am free.

No dark.

No light.

There's only me.

And I must not exist

because I realize I am only a vessel.

And when they are gone

I am empty.

Numb.

Nothing