Deep Dark

Everyone is standing on the edge of it... the abyss. They don't know that's what it is because it looks different to everyone. For some, it's addiction, or poverty, loneliness, illness, mental issues and all sorts of unpleasantness that becomes overwhelming. For other people, it's their dream job, perfect family, wonderful life that they keep chasing... right down to the bottom of the pit. Everyone's experience with it is different. There are those who get to the edge, take a step too far and plummet. Others have a long, slow descent and don't even realize what is transpiring until they are far, far down. One human may walk beside it and try to pretend the abyss is not there. The next will dance and play right up to its edge. Many don't even realize they are near it or that it exists for them at all. There are a few who see it. They see the depth, they feel the darkness. Not because they are close to it, but simply because it is there. Those who are sensitive to it like this are scared for those who don't even acknowledge it's there or who dance around the edge of it. We don't tell them not to dance, dusky dance farther away. Don't walk along it pretending it's not there, walk the opposite direction. Those of us who see it for what it is, we tell you. maybe not in those words we have found will scare you, but in subtle, kind words of warning. Just listen.