I’m afraid of the dark
I sleep with a nightlight
and I always have to have a light at the end of a dark hallway.
I’m not afraid of the dark because of the unknown
or because I can’t control what is there,
I’m afraid because of what I imagine there.
I know there are not boogey-men or vampires or robbers
but there is a difference between imagination and reality
Imagination can dream stories and cities and people
as an escape from reality
Imagination can create innovations
to better reality
Imagination can believe in possibilities
to change future reality
Imagination can transform monsters in my mind
into monsters hiding in the dark of reality
But I’ll take these monsters
so that I can have my imagination
of people
of places
of inventions
of hope
of faith
Light may show us what is there
what is reality
but darkness shows us
what could be there
and maybe,
what should be there
