The Light
Given the option of eternal bliss or a chance to bring peace to all that inhabit the planet. Most would be hard press not to choose bring peace to the world, but does the world include you, the hero. The one that was asked to carry such a burden. Doesn’t he deserve to enjoy the fruit of his labor that was born from his effort. Eternal bliss wasn’t bad until she came around, she would change my world, for better or worse I accepted her request. To seek glory and obtain the peace that she promises, she of course being the light. The light, the same one that introduced me into this world, they say will be there to escort me out of existence. The light is beautiful, warm, and welcoming, but before the light ever reached out and invited me into this life. The darkness had already excepted me. Even after when the light realizes her mistake and no longer wants any part of me and decides to remove me from this beautiful, warm, and seemingly welcoming life, darkness will be there. She will always be there, even after I betrayed her for the light, darkness will smile at me with open arms and accept me. She may be nothing like the light, she’s not warm but a little cold, and she isn’t welcoming but overbearing, but she's peaceful and that's all anyone ever needs, peace. I yearn for peace, where I can go to a place, I call home and enjoy the company of those, I hold dear, but a place like that doesn’t exist for me. Peace like that was never an option when your portrayed as the villain. Peace is reserved for heroes, and I am unfortunately not one. I am a villain; a villain who has taken too many people's lights to light my own darkness. A poor attempt to rekindle a snuff out flame that once illuminated so bright, no one ever saw the darkness diluting the light. A dark light that doesn't ever seem to get illuminated enough for everyone to see, the hero that could have but never came to be. A hero who came from nothing, overcame the odds, and actually made his dreams come true. Just to find out it was nothing like he had dreamed of. Unfortunately Lucky as I would soon come to know that my life is a tragedy and not a happy ever after. So come one come all and listen to the story of Khadfa the Mad Dragon King. The caterpillar that did not become the beautiful butterfly basking in the light but a moth. A moth that travels at night and forever attracted to the unacquired love of the light. The same light that introduces him to the warmth of life, will beg for the brutal demise of a once promising hero. Because a villain is only required to reach peace, after the curtain closes there’s no place for a villain in a world full of peace
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