Darkness within and without me

It was not just dim or even like a completely cloudy and moonless night

For I stayed in a dark that admitted not even the idea of light

Things looked the same with my eyes either open or closed

Turning all the way around and looking up and down, I saw nothing different

How often did I stumble over simple obstacles unseen?

And not a single photon ever fell upon any of my myriad receptors

How easily I might have walked given just a little light

But I could not even know what my eyes were for

I might have begun with an imagining of colors

Though without sight all descriptions were simply meaningless

I arose from the dark and in darkness I remained

And I had no need of longing, for I had never seen

I dreamed in but the singular image of total darkness

No shadows could ever cross over me upon my unseen path

I knew not sunset nor the difference between day and night

Sunlight could not penetrate the depth of my thought

Darkness filled me instantly from everywhere without

And I remained as dark as my absolutely colorless surroundings

It was not just dark - for there simply was no light

The emptiness of not black was the only truth that I knew

I could not miss that thing called light, so far outside my ken

But, I was not blind, for I was always seeing nothing

So, I was blind but could not ever notice

Therefore, the darkness did not bind me in any form of sorrow

For me there were no things better left unseen

I did not strive to make out any shadowy details

I always saw everything there was, all at once

I could not fret over things I never knew that I could hope for

It was not blackness but it was the unified and true darkness

I merged with the no color, as empty as the void that surrounded me

My field of vision was consistent in all directions and both up and down

I lacked for nothing in the completeness of my ignorance

The mindless darkness bound me before I had emerged

I might have learned to visualize my surroundings but the void was silent

In the dark I found I had little understanding of how far that I had traveled

Darkness touched me all over until I took its form from within