It’s deeper than anyone thinks. The abyss. It yawns consistently on the precipice of the mind, threatening to swallow you whole. On the best of days, you can avoid the hunger of it and push it out of your mind. On the bad ones, it roars with a terrifying silence that overwhelms even the best of us. But it’s always there. And every time you acknowledge it, a question is asked every time.

Will you jump from the edge into the abyss?

On one hand, safety may seem to be your best bet. Stay on the light side, never acknowledge the darkness that threatens to swallow everything whole. If you ignore it, it would go away right? Live in the bliss that is ignorance.

Some embrace it. They delve into it and let the abyss swallow them, and become it in action. They abandon the world around and let everything be dragged down into nothing. For when they lose the light in their own hearts, all that’s left is an echo of who they were before.

But you have to find that balance. To see that the abyss is not a place of permanence, nor a place of despair. It’s a part of life that you live with. The trick to understand is that it’s not about out or in, but that you cycle yourself, crossing over the edge.

It’s not easy to pull yourself out of the abyss when you find yourself in it. No one blames you for being lost to it. You were young when you lost your mother, and not much older than that when you lost your father. The fact it took you this long to be swallowed by darkness is almost impressive. For there is no easier way down than the grief of a lost loved one.

When it comes to show though, what’s happened since you’ve become Destructo? You’ve lashed out. Made some noise. But it’s not brought you anything. No sooner vengeance against the ones that killed your family.

Tied to the abyss, you can’t see anything beyond it’s shadow.

But you can be different. You can pull yourself out of it.

The thing that people forget the most, I’ve been there before. When the world around you is crumbling down beneath you, you embrace the abyss. I’ve spent time in the dark, hunting and seeking revenge without cause or concern. But you know what I found?

You can’t get anything by hiding in the abyss.

Languishing in the shadows of rage and grief didn’t get me the information about the ledger. Screaming from the darkness didn’t get me the closure I needed for the death of my brothers in the Kingdom. I had to pull myself out, stand back up on that edge, and go again. The light I shine with isn’t naivety, but a flame that I’ve built up on my own.

Maybe in time, you too can leave that darkness. But for now, you’re stuck fading from my light.