The Unseen Threat

It’s hard to imagine, but darkness is the inherent state of the Universe.

Our tiny blue - green marble spinning round’ a twinkling star catching equal parts darkness and light-- we are the illuminated anomaly in space. Populated by barely erect apes, shivering in the night' cowering in our beds clinging to our artificial lights till the relief of day comes creeping across the horizon... only to darken again with a twist of its axis.  Everything else came from the surrounding nothingness: spawned in darkness; swathed in darkness; and approaching-- in darkness.

…which is why, we never saw Them coming.