DARK

I was a kid and believed the night held monsters, purely because of the inky dark and my father

said there is nothing in the dark son, its the same as the day, and took me around an old weatherboard

house we lived in by fields, and we walked through shadows, with him saying dont be afraid

there is nothing that can hurt you, and i believed him that the night was no different from day

and growing up i learned different, that monsters do exist in stygian blackness, only the human kind

and for instance some homeless know it, and sleep high at night for things lurk in the dim.