Runnin On Empty

 If it is so dark I cannot see How then, do I know it is the dark that envelops me? I cannot touch these invisible walls & yet it denies my eyes From seeing all that lies beyond. So how can it be that I am free to walk through this black oxygen To seek and find for myself, but not for fear? And so I sit here in the silent company of darkness daring not to move For when I stand and reach for light, it strikes me down without word So down I stay this time to sit and wait For what I do not know. Maybe the tallest of all ladders   so that I may climb One rung at a time and reach the mountainous sky To kiss the moons milky white face and taste a little on my lips Just enough to illuminate my heart and spark my soul To light my path & lead me safetly from the dark where I have been lost for so long