Listen

It’s one of those nights that sits heavy on your shoulders and coerces you to question your answers. Why do you believe that way? Who gave you the right to form an opinion just yet? Where are you headed? Have you fully paid your debts?

Sometimes I ponder if there is such a thing as a guilt-free conscience. I wonder how much the thoughts of those who have wronged legally, weigh. Is the anchor of their deeds enough to bring their entire ship crumbling down? Or despite weighing thousands of tons, it still floats painlessly? 

I wonder if the darkness has ever felt the need to prove itself. You and I, we keep blaming darkness for what resides within us. We keep associating darkness with unknown, guilt, melancholy. What if light is the real culprit? Should darkness not be praised for following light everywhere? Just think about it, you can bring light into the dark, but never dark into the light. Darkness sits there silently as light breathes into the darkness. It sits there silently as gradually light erodes darkness. It replaces it. It becomes it. It bears silently the burdens of our fingers. It never speaks. And yet, when light betrays us, darkness holds its ground. It cares not for what you may have said or done, it serves its purpose of being dark. That is it. It keeps serving its purpose. 

And really everything does. Light keeps invading darkness. Darkness keeps returning after light. The sky keeps being blue. The sun remains yellow. The grass grows. The waves crash into the ocean and then retreat to crash again. The birds chirp in the morning without failing. The earth keeps spinning and revolving. How true are Newton’s words when he says that an object in motion stays in motion-it never fails to serve its purpose unless or until affected by an outside force.

The entire universe sings its songs. All we have to do is listen.