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Darkness

Caution. Always caution

with words that describe

the absence of one thing.

Find me another worry

with so much real estate

in a lifetime. The world

brings you around to it

at the end of day, and cold

months give it dominion.

When stars give up,

the crumble into universal

disasters, sucking light

into nowhere like a thirsty

storm drain. With a little tape 

and blackout curtains

you can make any room

the darkest place possible.

Eyelids, for Christ sake--

an organ just to bring our first fear

to the sense of sight. Milliseconds

of terror with every blink; the long

denial of light before sleep.

It puts you in your place--

properly fearful

to feel even a bit like God

before He decided the universe

needed making.