The Darkest Hour

The darkest hour is always before dawn. For many, dawn comes to the grateful need and desire. Those first rays of light that bring hope and new chances. They get on with their days, unaware and unassuming, perhaps even a little selfish from time to time. What do they care, after all? That's the point. They don't have to care. So what happens to those few that do care? Those small insignificant few, they become aware. The dawn no longer brings the new chances and their hopes and dreams begin to fade into nothing. Eventually, the dawn just stops coming. The hour comes, but it never passes and the darkness stays in their souls. Life becomes a single unending nightmare. Many of those few can learn to embrace the darkness, the turn the nightmare into a pleasure. Some can even make it happen. Sometimes though, just sometimes, the nightmare comes back and all the pleasures they thought they had become twisted, hurt and desperate