Too Brightly

Light can
be bright,
it can shine into
the darkness
and fill it
all with light...

light is good,
it lets you
see the monsters
in the dark,
allowing you
to be able to
fight them...

yet there
is a darkness
to light,
and sometimes
light can be
so bright
that you
cannot see
around you...

you look
right at it
and it blinds you...

it shines so brightly,
so intensily, and
so beautifuly,
that you cannot take your eyes
away from it
and you lose focus,
you don't see anything else...

not even yourself...

you always
have the option
of turning it
off,
or walking away,
yet...

what if this
brightly shining
light,
is someone that
you care about?
someone whose beautiful light
shines so
intensily
that it blinds you, and
you cannot see
anything else around you?
at least not without difficulty?

what is the answer then?
what do I do?


*inspired by Michelle Branch's "Goodbye To You" and also inspired by real emotion