ABSENCE OF LIGHT

Into the darkness
Into the night
Into the shadows
I take flight

I have accepted
What others rejected
I embrace it
And shall not disgrace it

A tool of the trade
I am not afraid
I can use it to flee,
Or attack when they cannot see

I bend it's will
And am hidden when still
I move surreptitiously,
Professionally

Comforting to me
Permeates my soul
A needed reprieve
Completes me, makes me whole

I step into the night
Hidden from sight
Me you won't find
For the darkness is mine

In the failing of light
Shadows form
In the night
My confidence restored

Darkness is good
Darkness is right
I stand where I should
In the absence of light

When I need to get away,
At the end of the day
I go where the shadows sway