Shades of Gray

There are two sides to this world

Light and darkness

Living in such different worlds 

Light decides that they are better than darkness

That they can attain things more because of where they stand

Living in their white world

Knowing that your black world is only full of darkness

And they are better because they are full of light

They have been given only good experiences

So they are able to talk about the darkness

They are able to speak condescending to it

They believe they are stronger than it

They say...

You who lives on the left side

Does not understand how it is to be loved

How it is to be cherished

How it is to be freed

So they will look down on darkness until darkness finally decides to come to the right side

Then the other side

Looks at light thinking that they know they are better

As light believes they are free

Only seeing darkness as less than what they are

Do you not see that darkness is what helps you attain your white status

That they are fighting everyday

Knowing that they need to do whatever it is to stand

Yet the light already stands on a box

A box that was given to them

Where they keep adding more boxes to look down on the darkness

Yet they stand in darkness only because the light’s shadow has a large overcast

Darkness cannot seem to get outside their shadow

It looms over darkness and they cannot find the light

But there are those who push and who overcome and find the gray...

Those live knowing that whether they are not where you are or will ever be they will still love you

They will not have you look down upon them

The gray will look at you in the eyes

For you are equal

The gray does not stand in light

For it does not want to have a spotlight on them

Yet they do not stand in the dark

For they have overcome

They stand in the middle

They stand walking being the balance

Gray will be the one that helps those around them find what it is they lack

In the light and in the darkness it will help them find their happy medium

They will help the light find joy in others darkness

And will try to help darkness find peace in others light

For gray will not be light and it will not be darkness

Yet nor will it be mediocre

It is here for the broken

It is here for the loved ones

To be able to communicate that love is not white

Love is not black

It lives in the shades in between

Eventually they will either become white or black

But for the time being

Let us mix our colors 

And find that we can find happiness 

In the shades of gray