@rkelso,your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum. Installation and Troubleshooting is not for problems with (nor for advise on) your project 
See About the IDE 1.x category.
Where is delayWrite()? Do you mean digitalWrite()?
digitalWrite(somePin, HIGH);
If both sides of the LED have the same potential (voltage), no current will flow and the LED will be off.
Note: I hope you have current limiting resistrs in place.