Gleam

 Gleam

        -Alveera Hafeez

Darkness within the verse,

Fallen on me like a curse,

Beholding my wings to fly,

Telling me all this is a lie.

The darkness that darkened the dark,

The darkness hidden behind my bark,

The darkness I always hid,

The darkness I never got rid.

I started accepting that darkness,

I started accepting those thoughts,

Those beautiful forest became my darkness,

I believed those evergreen droughts.

Unless one day a firefly came,

With him the lost colours came,

The darkness became so obscure,

That his light became my cure.

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