Shades of Life: Black Night

I don’t do it often
Though I wish I did:
Stare up at the night sky
At the dark blanket
Enveloping us all
There’s a familiarity in it
It's always there
No matter what
And unlike everything else
The shades are few
Just a constant black
Staring back at you
Unchanging
Uncaring
Or so it seems
Because as you stare at the darkness
As the noise dies out
And silence is all you have
Something lets go
You whisper secrets to it
Secrets buried deep inside
And as the emotions come out
As the tears roll out
It takes them all in
Protecting you with its darkness
Wrapping its arms around you
Helping those tears float away
To join the many others
Already buried within it
The murmured secrets
The whispered tales
Of forgotten moments
Of souls you never met
From around the universe
All guarded by the night
Reminding you
Of an endless abyss
Of the vastness of it all
And that you
Are just a small part of it
But as you look at that black night
Your tears now dried up
It tells you silently
That it doesn’t matter
How big the world is
How complex life is
How many souls it embraces
Because the ultimate secret
The only one you need to remember
The only one you need to hear
Is that in this moment
You, matter.