When Darkness Creeps

The cold it chills me to the bone.
And the darkness instills fear.
I fear this darkness because I've seen what it can do.
It strangles people, chokes the love right out.
This cold clammy darkness smothers it's victims.
No one hears them even whimper.

The darkness is starting to creep in.
Its ready to pounce,
But then I see a dim light.
It is fast approaching; and it starts to grow rapidly.
And all the while it's growing it is chasing away the dark nothingness that was going to consume me.
For some reason I start to love being in this light.
Even thought I grew up in the darkness it chased away.
I sit in stupid bliss and soak up every ray.
I just knew the light would never leave me;
At least not now.
Not after it had found me and I needed it so much.
I was wrong.
My light left me in the middle of the night.
It never even flickered.
I awoke to the dark nothingness that was about to kill me.
And I didn't even care.
I didn't care about anything.
Not even the approaching darkness or the death it has in store for me.