I Will Be Your Darkness

This poem was a lot of fun to write. It took a bit of battling to get it to a place where I was happy with it. But I was truly happy with the end results. The perspective is written as a reversal of roles. It's written as if a I'm telling a story about a conversation I had with a woman. And she is waxing poetic and confessing to me that she prefers the night time and comes alive at night. She doesn't like the daytime because she feels that the light exposed her flaws. So I reassure her and respond that no matter if it's day or night, I will be her darkness. And thus, the title... lol.

"I Will Be Your Darkness"
2009
 
I once sat down in front of her
To begin a query on this day
And her eyes met mine, for just a time
Then her attention began to stray
As inquistive as I maybe
I asked, "darling what is wrong tonight?"
She slyly smiled, as thoughts compiled
And said, "dear I will tell you what once was right."
She took me down memory lane
To a time when life was better still
Hope was not destroyed, nor was there a void
In her, that I had better fill
And as my head fell into my hands
I wondered quick, "what can be done?"
When a soul has come to find, it is their mind
That they never will outrun
But before my thoughts could truly form
Her words made silence cower in its' shame
And shake from fright, away from sight
Then revealed her revelation as it came
She said, "The light is like my enemy
With its' judgment bathed in bright.
And no matter how I shield my eyes,
It aims to blind me just for spite.
It illuminates my every flaw
So all the world can see
That perfection can never be attained
Especially not by me.
But the darkness is slowly pulling close
And holds me like your arms
And while it creeps into my bed at night
It has yet to raise alarms.
Because it helps me mask the things
That should never greet your eyes
And it treats my body like your hands and lips
Like it truly is the perfect size.
And though there are some things I will outgrow
I will never count the dark as such
'Cause no matter how much it hurts to see
The dark will calm me like your touch.
But to answer now, what you asked before
There is truly nothing wrong
Because I've searched, 'til in front me perched
Is the one I've needed all along.
So I command you not to leave me
And lie beside me through the night
And I'll beg you to be the darkness
That holds me nice and tight.
So leave your shining armor home
And save this damsel in distress
While you wear nothing at all
And you're watching me undress."
Then she got on top of me
And laid her head upon my chest
And asked, "will you be my darkness babe?"
As I softly whispered, "yes."
Then she reached and turned off the light
As our breaths and bodies then combined
And whatever happened after that
Should be left up to your overactive mind.