Dark

As a child

I always feared

the things I couldn't see

and the things I couldn't understand

from the dark things

that lived

in the empty space

under my bed

to the dark things

hidden between the words

of the grown-ups' arguments

And to this day

I'm still not sure

which is more frightening

the blank

under-bed space

from which a child's

nightmares are born

or the dark

between-words space

from which a child's

insecurities are born

And here I am now

still not knowing

where to look

to find the light

and wondering if

in the end

it's all just dark

~VoodooRue (February 2018)