But Never

Alright. So the story behind this poem is that I was asked to figure out the metaphor of my own writing. I'm currently in the process of writing a collection of poems called "The Light Side of the Dark" and basically, my writing has always concerned finding the light in every situation, pulling the beauty from the ugly. One cannot truly enjoy the beauty of something unless there is an underlying ugliness to it. And so my writing reflects the light of even seemingly dark situations in life.

Since my project was to find a metaphor for this, I decided to go with constellations as my metaphor. In life, everybody has ups and downs in their daily living. So I considered how constellations are the connection of stars in the sky. Between every star, however, there are patches of darkness, which represent the everyday trials and tribulations we must face. You go through dark times and you go through light times. That's just the way of life. So I thought the constellation the perfect metaphor to what my writing is trying to get at.

It's both dark with a negative undertone. But the negative is meant to bring out the positive in this poem, which I hoped would bring about a nice balance of light and dark themes. Make what you want of the rest of it. Because it really is up to the reader to decipher poems for him/herself. The overall meaning will be interpreted however you people see fit to interpret it. =3