Without the Night

Illustration is "Starry night over the Rhone" by Vincent Van Gogh.
Taken from Wikimedia Commons. 

Without the night there is no day.

Where light exists, it will cast shade.

To love our homes we have to stray.

This is how our world is made.

What if we could send our woe away?

We would lose more then than just relief.

Hopes and dreams, ideals and idle play

would go as well, tangled with our grief,

and leave our world a place of silent grey.

Pain makes pleasure true and real.

When hurt and sorrow block your way,

that is just the price. You live the deal:
without the night there is no day.