Shadows

We feel,
pain,
sorrow,
guilt,
anguish,
death,
and we can't seem to find the other feelings.
Such as life,
love,
or even happiness.
In order to grasp the light,
we must embrace the darkness that inhabits life,
where the light once dwelled the darkness will take its place in time.
Your shadow,
where you move it follows,
leaving a wake of darkness behind.
The world moves in a similar matter,
in an orbit of our only source of true light,
but behind it, it leaves its shadow.
Once it completes its orbit, it returns to its shadow.
Engulfed by it, like it is being burnt by a flame,
The shadows,
the darkness kill us slowly
from the inside
from the outside.
We find it in ourselves where no light can shine;
we watch as our world gets swallowed by it.
We watch as our world once filled with color,
with white,
fades to shades of gray,
then finally to black.
We once didn't watch this happen,
once we didn't dwell in our shadows,
because there were none.
We killed our earth,
a slow death,
why
because it, we, ac no longer focus on the light,
the few lucky ones still see it.
But they truly don't know how to teach us.
Why is it being swallowed?
We shouldn't dwell on the inevitable
we can only make it worse
so we should dwell in the dark,
live with the pain
and never try to do anything about it.
We should live life with what we have,
live in our fading shades of gray.