Two Shades of Darkness

You have found me
smothered
in a shadow.
You have stumbled up a child;
one whom carries storm clouds around
in a tattered napsack.
A merchant with sadness for sale.
You have discovered that loneliness,
like a man,
has two arms, and two legs.
It breathes in and out,
but still cannot avoid shortness of breath.
You have seen with your own eyes
the ways that armies reap.
You have heard with your own ears
the bawling of babes.
You have touched with your own hands,
the course devil's skin.
On this earth; delighted only in our empathy.
But
indeed, as you walk into the shadow,
I discover that two shades of darkness
sometimes shed like light.

-for Brent