Light of Dark revised

The Light of Dark

Forever will Dark be rivaling Light,
Light reveals truth while the Dark masks the good,
Never will Light lose to Dark in their fight,
But truly this fight is misunderstood.

Describe a scream without using a sound,
Try to make red without any colors,
It is through this logic reason is found,
To describe some things you do need others.

So without Dark how can Light be defined?
Together complete and never apart,
The goal of a life in everyone’s mind:
To find the one that can balance our heart.

The journey of life without love’s unkind,
Without the light in the dark your heart’s blind.





This sonnet focuses on the balance of life and love. I chose the icons of dark and light to represent two equals and I thought it would be a fun challenge. Dark has never been the subject of affection. It’s always pushed around; an example found in Star Wars. It was the Dark Side of the Force who started the galactic mess (destroying planets and murdering innocent alien-women and alien-children). Nevertheless, this balance of light and dark has to be the purest example of a constant dance between two opposites. To get this point across to the reader, I needed a way in which I could explain the dark wasn’t as evil as portrayed.
The ‘explaining’ started in the first stanza. I designed the first three lines to give light empowerment over dark. The first and third lines fit together well; the first line states the dark and light will forever be battling and the third line says light will always win. In every fight to infinity, light will always beat the dark, which is impressive. The fourth line sets the statement which is the foundation of the whole second stanza. “But truly this fight is misunderstood” challenges the reader to read on.
After reading on into the second stanza, the reader is greeted by a sudden mood change. I chose to make this stanza into a series of analogies to interest the reader and provoke thoughts. “Describe a scream without using a sound, Try to make red without any colors” gives some people a real revelation that it can’t be done. After catching the reader, I lead on into, “It is through this logic reason is found, To describe some things you do need others”. I took this philosophy from the ancient yin-yang. The mastery of balance is symbolized in this overused religious logo. Everything needs an opposite.
Opposites are brought into the theme of love in the third stanza. I chose to start it with the word ‘So’ because I feel that I made strong points in my second stanza and I wanted to carry that momentum on into my third stanza. The first line, “So without Dark how can Light be defined?” is what the whole second stanza lead on into. If you’ve never seen dark before you couldn’t describe light and vice versa. They’re opposites and need each other to exist (this being emphasized in the second line). In the last two lines I wanted to get to the point of all these analogies and logic. Simply put, the goal in life of most people is to find the person they truly love, also known as ‘their other half’. It takes only one person to complete another, but it may take lifetimes for them to find each other. That’s why completing your heart becomes your main goal in life.
“The journey of life without love’s unkind, without the light in the dark your heart’s blind.” To go a life without receiving or giving love is a wasted one. At death, many reminisce on cherished moments with loved ones. This is why the journey of life is unkind without love; there’s nothing to cherish. In the last line of my poem, I brought back the comparison of light and dark and merged it with a person’s heart. When both elements are together, only then can the heart love at its fullest potential. Like the bond between dark and light, nothing can break apart true love.