10-25-2019, 11:18 PM
Blind Fear
We fear flat darkness, not a sudden light
revealing terrors, skeletons to fright
our snuffed-out vision which in blackness might
imagine worse than some bare-boney wight.
This void lives with us, just behind our eyes–
much scarier than what mere seeing spies,
for truth’s not horror, horror truly lies
in waking nightmares darkness magnifies.
We fear flat darkness, not a sudden light
revealing terrors, skeletons to fright
our snuffed-out vision which in blackness might
imagine worse than some bare-boney wight.
This void lives with us, just behind our eyes–
much scarier than what mere seeing spies,
for truth’s not horror, horror truly lies
in waking nightmares darkness magnifies.
Non-practicing atheist