The Eclipse

The Sun. The big, bright, bold, golden sun, with its healing rays and joyous warmth lights up Earth, the pale blue, serene planet. Adds joy to life on Earth. So many lives depend on the light of the sun that penetrates darkness surely. He is invincible.  

An Eclipse. A dark, terrible Eclipse. Blocking the light of the sun, it remains, like a stubborn, exceedingly obstinate child, refusing to move. Life is darkness. Everything is darkness. How can it not be when the sole source of golden comfort, the sun has it's golden halo blocked and forced away? The Eclipse covers all. The dependable sun, which shone its light unstintingly unselfishly, has bee devoured by the self centered Eclipse, which cares not at all.
 
The Earth. The Earth with its hues of blue and green, beautiful as ever with her serene smile and wreath of air is innocent. She used to be innocent. Her smile as vanished. Her vibrancy and beauty, all has faded away. Corruption and contamination has overridden her. Engulfed her. She is maimed. She is lonely, sad and frustrated. 

The Eclipse, she doesn't realize, is her own selfish soul. The Earth, the blue beautiful planet is decieved by her own evil. Evil known as the Eclipse, which won't allow the sun into the Earth's life. The Sun is persistent, but the Eclipse resists. Does the Earth know that the Eclipse is merely a wall she herself built around her with her jealous insecurities and self centered-ness? The Eclipse is a barrier. The Earth doesn't want to let the Sun in, so she trapped herself within the "safe" confines of a dark, enveloping Eclipse. Yet The Sun is persistent. The Earth is in darkness. The Earth is scared, so very scared to let the molten gold rays of The Sun in, to heal her, to console her. No. She doesn't trust stars. How many of them beckoned to her, twinkling beautifully in the distance, only to fade away into nothingness when she drew close? How many of them promised to light up her dark skies and yet gave only enough light for themselves to shine? How many of them had assured her that they were shining for her and yet were always shining for other planets?  

And yet, the sun is different. He is not afraid to shine. Not for his own benefit, but to help all others around him, to comfort them with her angel-halo band of molten gold light. He doesn't want to shine for the Earth and fade away. He wants to shine for her forever. Light her up so that she won't be in darkness. He doesn't want to leave. He won't leave. So through the Eclipse, he keeps on shining. The desolate Earth is confused. Why isn't he leaving? Why is her still testing her defenses? She is not breaking. Or is she? He is trying to convince her. To persuade her. Let him through, he will heal her, console her and comfort her. The darkness will disappear. The light will remain.  

A flash. A blinding flash of realization. The barriers are gone. The Eclipse is no more. It fades away as the Sun moves in with his warm pools of golden light that shine upon the dilapidated Earth. The Earth faces him as he shines on her. Shined for her. A stream of unwavering energy, comfort and warmth, all intermingled. The Earth dares him to move. But it's redundant. He won't move. Not now, not ever. He broke The Eclipse to shine on her. To shine his light. He won't back out. And so the Earth takes it in. She is healing. She is slowly regaining her vibrancy, beauty and colour. The Sun remains unchanged. Her world literally revolves solely around him now. As she dances around him, dances for him, in happiness while he smiles, shining his light on her, she realizes... He is here to stay. Deep inside her, there was a part that knew this. Only it took a leap of faith and a test of courage to see it. 

The darkness has faded. And The Sun shines.