In a land full of shadow
Devoid of any light

I was a corpse among corpses
Who wouldn’t even try to breathe
Where other corpses played
I remained still.

Dormant in the past
Deprived of any future
No beginning that mattered
With no end in sight

But soon came the light.
It burned my eyes and did sting my skin.
I looked away, disgusted even from within

It did not look like me.
It did not speak like me.

So when it crept upon me
I decided to flee

What if it caught me?
Who then, would I be?
I liked me.
And even if I didn’t, it couldn’t possibly like me.

It couldn’t understand shadow
It casts shadow out in an instant!
It couldn’t sing my song
So I remained resistant.

It couldn’t enjoy the vain and the trivial
It wouldn’t allow for such a thing.
And since it insists on meaning
What about me…
Well. What would it think?

“I love you”

With that, I stopped running
Finally at wits end

There was no place for me here.
And there couldn’t be any space for me there

So why was I here?
While the other corpses play in shadows
They laugh
And They fight

But I remained
Soon engulfed by light
It didn’t burn, though some parts did sting

It asked me questions
And I asked it things
“Why did you run?” It asked me once
“Why did you come?” I replied
It smiled at me.
And for some reason I cried
It smiled at me.
And once again, I died.

How do you die to death?
A mysterious thing indeed
What happens after you die to death?
You come alive
You breathe

In a sea of many corpses
There’s a peculiar thing you see
There will be bodies like me
Helping corpses to breathe