YOU ARE NOT BROKEN

Even When It’s a Total Eclipse

There will always be light.

Mika Oka
Write Under the Moon
2 min readApr 11, 2024

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Life throws us dark periods, some fleeting, others lingering. It can be suffocating, relentless, and make us feel like giving up entirely. We lose sight of hope, questioning how we’ll ever survive. But here’s the truth: we always do.

Look back at those dark periods.

No matter the darkness we face, even an eclipse that seems to blot out the sun entirely, there will always be light.

But remember, these periods are just that — temporary.

The darkness will eventually yield, and the light will come again.

Photo by Jongsun Lee on Unsplash
Photo by Jongsun Lee on Unsplash

swept in, like the harbinger of gloom
chilling shadows trailing in your wake
dragged me into your eclipse tomb
your vast darkness creeping up fast

cutting off each lifeline’s spark
shattering my world
leaving its painful mark

trapped in this endless void
a suffocating darkness
bound and shackled in this eclipse
where only shadows reside

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Mika Oka
Write Under the Moon

Sharing her unique perspective on the world as a hearing-impaired autistic person with bipolar disorder despite the challenges. emikaoka.wordpress.com/home/