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Figuring Out the Black

January 16, 2012
By MadiMac15 SILVER, Farmington, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities - Dr. Suess

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Blackness envelops,
surrounds and encompasses.
Darkness is more consuming than light.
If it wasn't, so many people wouldn't be under the veil.
The veil of shadows,
But, though many are devoured by the dark,
there can be none without the light.
For the absence of light, is shadow.
The displacement of brightness is the dark.
The misguidance of white, is black.
There must be both
yin & yang;
sun & moon;
day and night;
Opposites are a necessity.
Otherwise, everything would be the same.

© Ashley D., Philadelphia, PA

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