How do you know if it’s dark?

Azra Khan
3 min readSep 16, 2021

If you are feeling lost then lose that self and find yourself again!

It was the last time when I saw her while hugging her knees with a fear of being lost...She was somewhere in a corner of a dark room with the unusual and intense darkness, that she was keeping inside her...

It seemed from the fear, which was dripping out of her rosy brown cheeks, that she had already lost herself.

The drops of sweat on her forehead were giving her a resemblance to the dew drops on the petals of a flower...

Of course, she was more like a flower... A flower that has been plucked with brutality...
She had it in mind that once the flower is plucked there is no other way to keep it alive and blooming...

She was indulged in her darkness when I kept my hand on her shoulder to tell her all that I had for her...
When she looked upward towards me with a fear that was apparent from her brown wide eyes with long lashes. I could feel the grief, the pain, the sorrow, and the screaming girl inside, crying for help and a way to get out of hell...

I looked at her and took a deep breath and sat in front of her in a crossed-legged manner on the floor...Then I hold her hand gently and placed my other hand on it and asked her " how do you know if it’s dark?"

She was quiet for a while and then answered in her shivering voice,

"We can not tell about darkness without relating it to the light. It is the light that defines dark!"

I passed her an affirmatory smile and asked," Don’t you think the same is the case with light? I just want to tell you that to get into the light you have to go through the dark and the darkness that you are having inside of you is for a purpose...

We don’t realize the worth of light until we are stuck in the darkness...That doesn’t mean that darkness is not worth it...What it means is don’t stray into the darkness and let it fade away when it is time to... Otherwise, you’ll have to suffer and suffer more!

We are pessimistic enough; we think when a flower is plucked it loses its existence! But that's not what happens all the time, we need to remember when a flower or a fruit falls on the soil it grows into a whole new plant; that new plant might be a tree giving shade or shelter to other lives or it might be a plant producing blooming wildflowers which are rare and unique...

If you are feeling lost then lose that self and find yourself again and know that we never lose until we are alive and breathing! "

She was quiet and calm while I was explaining all that to her... She disappeared, almost suddenly, at the moment when I saw the glitter in her eyes... It is since then I haven't seen her and I know I won't see her again...

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Azra Khan

I am a child with an old soul. I see magic in everything, but at the same time, everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply.