“How do I get through it?” Tommy asked, looking at the Shadow reflecting back at him…
“You have to find the Light.” The voice inside his head replied. Wondering to himself what it really meant Tommy looked down away from the Shadow confused. All of a sudden the voice was there again, it whispered into the back of his mind and he reflected on what he just heard. “There is Darkness in this Universe, the Light to see is through you.”
That was strange Tommy thought, wondering to himself what it really meant. “The Light to see?” He thought as he wondered with a certain level of curiosity what that actually meant. “Do you mean the Light to see through the Darkness?” Tommy asked himself, wondering if he was just speaking to himself in riddles. “I have lost the Light.” Tommy repeated inside his mind.
“Everyone has their Light dimmed for various reasons, Darkness is everywhere. You have to find the Light.” This time it was as if a different voice had manifested itself inside his head and he looked down again, confused even more now than ever. “The Light to see through the Darkness is inside.” Tommy thought to himself, it started to make more sense as he wondered what it really was he was asking. “Are all things Light surrounded by Darkness?” Tommy wondered, reflecting back on how he ever lost his Light in the first place. His thoughts had started to race through his mind like a flashing light, but not the Light that he had lost—for those were burned out by the Darkness. Tommy wondered if he would ever find his Light.
Laying back down on his bed, he ran through the thoughts in his head. “There is Darkness in this Universe, the Light to see is through you.” He repeated to himself over and over and over again. “When did the Darkness first start to consume my thoughts?” Tommy again repeated this phrase to himself, “there is Darkness in this Universe, the Light to see is through you.” Except, this time Tommy started to see a Light inside his mind, dim as it was there was Light in the Darkness. He started to wonder to himself, “am I really able to see the Light, surrounded by so much Darkness?”
“What is Darkness?” The voice inside his head echoed throughout his mind… “I guess it is when there is no more Light?” Tommy asked himself, as if there was someone else in his mind with him…
“Yes! That is true the Light to see is through you.” The voice said, but Tommy thought that he would never really find the Light he once had. It had been diminished by too much Darkness, trials and failures in life. The people he wronged and the things he did to bring the Darkness. “Where did it really start?” Tommy asked himself again. More importantly he thought, “how can I find the Light.”
“Look inside!”
The voice inside his head echoed again and he started to reflect on his thoughts. “I know there was Light before, I know I can do this because I can do anything that I put my mind too!” Tommy said to himself as he started to think of ways to find the Light he once had, surrounded by so much Darkness.
That is when Tommy started to realize what had dimmed his Light!
“I stopped seeing the Light, when I started focusing on the Darkness.”
That is what he thought and he knew that if he only could focus on the things that brought out his Light—surely that would drown out the Darkness.
Over the next couple days Tommy remembered all the things from his past, the things that brought him happiness—the things that brought the Light the first time.
He began to focus all his thoughts and energy on the Light inside him and the things that brought him joy and happiness. “I can see the Light!” Tommy thought to himself as he once again reflected on the words he heard inside his head. “There is Darkness in this Universe, the Light to see is through you.” He repeated this phrase over and over…
Then he looked up, shaken he started to remember as he opened the door and looked down as his mom was laying in bed. The sickness had crippled her, she could no longer even look at Tommy.
The room was cold…
The Darkness was setting in again…
