Dark Paradox

I'm restless, and the night is so dark For solace, I've travelled to the sea Feeling the gloom of my lost hopes embark Like the roaring waves, deep inside me. The waves strike against the shores of hopes Gliding like a wild note on a distant harp Everything looked like shadows and ghosts And I saw my fears much clearer and sharp. Now the sea has become calm and quite again The darkness makes me fresh and alert all the same My heart is heavy with the intense pain Like an exhausted storm, the silence came. The dead of the night hides the life of a day The failures, the success; the despair, the hope The direction and opportunities, the approach will stay The shape of things to come, now I can scope. The mind became clearer. I hadn't realised the girth The first ray after dawn shone onto the earth My dreams flew into the sky like birds quite free I wondered how in the dark, I learnt to see. Light we take for granted, effortless and free We focus not as we have many things to be Some great truths, that night, dawned on me And what a paradox, that in the dark, I learnt to see.