Dark Poems

I'm Not Scared of the Dark

I'm not scared of the dark

I do not fear this lack of light

I can stare into this endless night

It won't leave me sweating.

It won't

I do not fear the dark

No...

I fear the creatures that lurk in its dark shadow

The horrors that hide just out of sight

The screams muffled by dark things

The blood that goes unseen

I scare only by the monsters that hide from me

I fear the unknownness of it all

I fear how darkness blinds the senses

Morphs our eyes

Showing only what it wants to be seen

I fear how the night changes the wolf into a sheep

A monster, a lunatic, a psychopath, a rapist, a killer,

Turns them, morphs them, changes them

into a good honest and moral man.

I fear how it mutes my senses to the point that I can't tell if the hand clutching my own

is friends or foes...

So let me stress this,

I d o n o t f e a r t h e d a r k

I f e a r o n l y w h a t l u r k s w i t h i n