Empty Space is not Empty

I do not believe that empty space is empty. When I am hollow inside, I am not a vacuum. I am full of rich soil twisted with deep roots. As my roots twist around darkness that lives in me, I feel more surely that I am whole. Darkness and shadow are companions of the light. We do not exist without our opposite. We have form and being precisely because we are a mixture of light and dark. To cast out darkness is to dismember a part of who we are. To cradle the unknown places in us, the edges of light, the deep thresh holds of darkness, is to widen our love to be large enough to hold all of who we are.