Hope

Hope

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Hope.

It's a light.

A fading light.

A light I haven't seen in a long time.

The last time I knew hope,

The last time I had a light to follow,

To believe in,

That was years ago.

Since then, hope has abandoned me.

Everything's abandoned me.

I live in the shadows,

Alone in the dark,

Cast away from the day

Into an eternal night

From which there is no escape.

Here I am, a child of darkness,

Kin of the demons that thrive within it.

Hope has abandoned me,

And I'm all alone,

But before despair's cruel hands

Can suffocate me,

I am saved.

Shadows are my savior.

Darkness is my light.

Shadows are my hope,

And darkness is my dreams.

I don't need the light

That so cruelly abandoned me.

I need only the darkness

That so kindly protects me

From the evils of this terrible world.

I follow not the light,

But the shadow.

I hold on not to hope,

But to darkness.

Hope.

A frivolous thing.

Why believe so much

In treacherous hope?

Believe in the shadows.

The darkness never abandons you.