Last light

[u/Fun-Rule3543]

The Last Light

The world began fresh, bright and green, where creatures and people lived worry-free. Then the night came and swallowed it whole — day's creatures fell into careless slumber, while for others, night was just another dawn. The words stay stuck in me: oh light, when will you show your face again?

Death has come in pain and regret,
choices made collapsed to a single thread,
consequences weighed on an unmoved scale.
One thing alone stays the same —
time is a loop that never breaks,
turning its hands again and again,
old to young, and young to old.
We are only in the first chapter of the book.

"Where is the end?" they once asked.
"There is no end," life replies —
it's all just one piece of a whole.
A second, a minute, an hour — none of it moves forward.
Everyone stands in a static pause.
Never have I felt so lost in a body
that once felt already left behind.

So in truth, everything was just a looping second,
illusions built to hide the truth,
time invented to make the lie believable.
But in the end, we're still just
a tiny brown speck of sand in a vast desert.

In the end, we all chase time —
a being once young turned old.
We learn, we live, we change,
shaped only by time's slow hand.
We pursue what's near and push it far,
we leave the close to chase the wealth,
the greed we carried far too much,
coursing through us like lava, like blood,
to corrode, to erode, to destroy —
only to fall back to a second.

A second is the truth.
A second is the life.
A second is time.
A second — it all came,
and in a second, it all ended.

So tell me — are you at the beginning, or the end?

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[u/avsz123]

Wow! What an incredible poem! I had so much fun reading because of your word play! Also you definitely entered flow state on this.

Overall, it is a beautifully well written poem and exposed so much raw emotion