Beautiful Darkness

I used to think the dark Was where the light had failed. I was wrong. Night falls softly on the city, Turns the windows into stars. Nothing asks me to be brighter. Nothing tells me what to hide. There is mercy in the silence When the daylight steps aside. Stay a little longer. Don't turn on the light. There are things worth seeing Only at night. Give me streets beneath the rainfall, Give me midnight painted slow. One small lamp still burning Where nobody needs to know. No catastrophe is coming. No abyss beneath my feet. Just the world without its armor, Dark and strange And incomplete. Oh, beautiful darkness, Wrap the world in velvet black. You are not an empty absence. You are not the end of light. There are colors hidden deeply In the architecture of the night. Beautiful darkness, I can finally see you now. I don't need the sun to save me. I don't need the dawn just yet. Let one saxophone keep singing Somewhere far beyond my sight. Let the heavy chords beneath it Hold the silence Through the night. And if morning finds me here, I will welcome what it brings. But tonight belongs to shadows And the strange and lovely things. There is beauty in the darkness. I think I understand. Beautiful darkness, Let me hear your deepest sound. You are more than grief and endings, More than emptiness and night. You are every hidden color That was waiting outside light. Beautiful darkness, Stay until the morning comes. Beautiful darkness, You were never something I had to overcome. The city is still here. So am I. And the dark Is enough.