7.19.23 // A Call to Those Who Have Seen the Darkness

A call to those who have seen the darkness.
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To those who have not just seen the darkness, but have felt its cold, comforting grasp on their skin.
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To those who have experienced the strange sensation of darkness creeping in and blooming so intensely that it starts to taste sweet on your tongue. The taste transitions from bitter pangs to saccharine surrender as you learn to crave the sweet flavor of a black starless night.
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To those who have felt the cold touch of lacking, to those who learned to see in the midst of starless nights, to those who learned to crave the sweetness through the uncomfortable bitter, to those who were pushed to a limit you didn't know existed and then found solace at the end of the road you didn't know you could walk... you transformed in the darkness.
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You have weaved and tamed the darkness into something that doesn't encompass you, but something you embody like grace.
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Unafraid to pull the shadows around you, a living garment of challenges and strife, as strong as armor and as soft as velvet.
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You wear black with ease because there is only one winner with the absence of light. And you either learn to wear the darkness or the darkness wears you...