By Katie Arminie

 I don’t know if I’ve been courting darkness, or if it’s been courting me. All I know is it’s here now as a persistent presence. The compulsion to be true to me, and yet not acknowledge this selfishness, fights me. Can dark and light ever be balanced? I want to be free but it means to be out of this mortal coil. Does peace and knowledge come with this lifetime? I’m just trying to make sense of my reality.