Friday, January 31, 2020

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)

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