--- title: Running in the Dark date: 2017-07-30T06:25:11Z modified: 2017-07-30T06:25:11Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/running-dark/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1741 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/life_is_a_race.jpg" featured_image_alt: Life is a Race (Running in the Dark) author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2017-07-30T06:25:11Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![Life is a Race (Running in the Dark)](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/life_is_a_race.jpg) an empty feeling, rising slowly from the bowels of the deep, as it creeps and crawls it’s way to the mind, life is a race, a race run every single day, from [the](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) time i wake up to the time i merge with the darkness; i have been searching all along, for a way to win this race, every time it’s just a little bit close, but always out of reach; they say i am not doing enough, they say i am not hustling hard enough, they say i should retreat, but who are they to say? i am dancing with the demons, as the [storm](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/storm-passion.md) gathers strength inside, and when the lights go down, it’s a [war](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/war-within.md) inside the head; i am staring at the far away lights, for answers that have eluded me so far; i keep running like there is no tomorrow, i hustle and bustle my way through life; as i look at the [stars](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/stars-dark.md) above, i prepare to get ready, for another day, for another marathon, running in the dark;