Fight against the darkness

Poetry

By Andrea Tillmanns

Illustrated by Joel Bisaillon

Fight against the darkness

Don’t give up, fight

against the darkness,

shout at it,

drown it out

with everything

you can offer:

Drum, whistle,

sing and make noise,

threaten the monster

that threatens your sun –

and maybe it will return.

Hope quietly, hope

that the monster

will spare it,

and wait for

the new morning

in the middle

of your

day.

Andrea Tillmanns lives in Germany and works full-time as a university lecturer. She has been writing poetry, short stories and novels in various genres for many years. Her poems and stories have been published in The Prairie Schooner, The Adirondack Review, Clarion, and other journals and anthologies. More information about the author and her texts can be found on her website www.andreatillmanns.de.