Silhouette

I have heard it said
that broken people
are able to love better than most.
That once you’ve been in the dark
you learn to appreciate
all of the things that shine.
And while the Light
inside my heart
believes this to be true,
the Shadow in my mind
knows better.
Much,
much better.
Sometimes,
you take
some of the darkness with you
and you cannot help but give it
away
because darkness is all you know.
You have grown
too twisted
too hard
too blind
in the darkness
that sometimes
you can never appreciate the Light
because you are too busy
casting everything
in shadow.

~LT