We Rise To Fall Just To Rise Again

Do not forget that without light there is no shadow,

But only darkness. 

Light and Dark dance like timid lovers;

Shadow fearful of being captured,

Yet aware of its dependence

On the rise and fall of the sun.

Shadow lengthens, shrinks, shifts, and stretches 

 to a faint, yet large shade in the darkest parts of night,

Resisting the gaping mouth of Nothingness.

Here it lingers, holding on by a thread,

Granted a fragile life by the grace of pale moon light.

Coming with the break of Dawn is a new beginning.

The silhouette of Life gains power,

But only for a short while,

For High Noon, in all its glory, challenges Shadow,

Teasing it, daring it to come out and play.

But as everything is ephemeral

And as everything has happened before,

The Sun, too, must fall once again.

But do not forget that without light there is no shadow,

But only darkness.

So do not forget that when Shadow overwhelms,

There must be Light.