you could journey into that nothingness

to see what only the blind have seen,

a darkness much too strong to carry hope upon its spine

unless by force or by letting it go

you wander to that idea of an exit

follow the trail, by echos, by ghosts.

but slowly you come to realize

you're only going deeper.

and you eventually get lost in it,

become nothing in that dark sea.

And die, never knowing what it is

that you were missing.

or

you could bring a flashlight.