Melancholia: Middle English: black bile.

wait please, stay with me…

darkness I am learning

gently and patiently

is startlingly delightful

sure of course, some dark holds menace

but the dark I have encountered

rising in the morning before the sun as I do

it is what I make of it.

dark: the space between lightings.

sadness: the space between where the valley meets the mountaintop.

blackness: the color created from wherein all others arise.

melancholia: the space between illuminations.