Lenses

We need more joy in this world, 

we need less of this depressing sense of life, 

when everything around us is so beautiful. 

But we only look through a gray lens to see it. 

Sometimes we see our reflection in that lens, 

washing us with our own negative thoughts. 

Taking our minds to a darker place than this world really is, 

and, 

unfortunately, 

sometimes the void wins. 

Every time it wins, our lenses darken to a shade that begins to be hard to see through, 

the void begins to win again, 

feeding the ego of something that never deserved to win in the first place, 

deceiving our thoughts to think we are an unworthy opponent against these dark figures. 

Some of us find the strength to clean our lenses to see the light, 

it shines through,

reflecting on ourselves,

making us glow.

The ones close to us can see it shining off the glass of our lenses into theirs,

making it easier to see through the gray fog that tries to block out the glimmer from the ones who have made it.