Etude #1: The Darkness

In the beginnig there was the darkness.  In the very middle of it there was a tightly woven cobweb cocoon, where I hid from the non-existent rays of light.  I was weak and cold, hungry and hopeful.  I felt the piles of diamonds laying all around my cocoon, but was afraid to reach out for them.  I did not want to reach out.  They seemed to be too cold for me, for the coolness that cruelly pierced the flaming holes in my cobweb cocoon did not seem attractive at all.  My tired soul restlessly spinned around its axis, not seeing any escape. 

But the diamonds kept sending their flaming coldness.  And my cobweb was turned into holes, it was all holes - flaming with cold diamond light, which was at the same time warm and loving.  At the center of the darkness burned the cocoon of loneliness.  The unseen diamonds all around sparkled the rays of cheerfulness that laughed at my amazed sight - the sight of a blind man that suddenly was healed and brought back to life.

Darkness is for weak.  The strength can come from darkness, but for that there have to be piles of diamonds all around.  There also has to be a very patient love somewhere, as well as caring hands and loving eyes reaching out for the cocoons in the dark and the lonely souls hiding in them...