Darkness can have a strange effect on the mind. It can make you crazy, playing on your worst fears taking you to the brink of despair until you feel like your insides are tearing themselves apart and you're helpless..so helpless. For Darkness represents all our fears. Darkness is the symbol and the mask that blinds us, it is the Vail that keeps us from that comfortable place of enlightenment. The very word enlightenment is so coincidence, oh no. Everything in this world seeks a state of stability, a place of comfort. And for us, for the human race as we are, we seek knowledge. We seek understanding and clarity. We seek enlightenment for enlightenment takes us to that place of comfort, that place where we have knowledge. For if we have knowledge, we have power.
But without knowledge? We are lost and helpless, we are blind and confused, full of despair. We are in the dark. The true nature of Darkness here reveals itself. In Darkness lies our fear.
In Darkness..lies the unknown.
But is it all in the mind? Are all our fears a figment of our collective imaginations, manifested in the monsters under the bed? Are the monsters more likely a skeleton in the closet? Or are they real? The mind is a powerful force after all. Are the monsters just shadows of ourselves, cast from light and forged from Darkness itself. Maybe.
But maybe somewhere along the way the darkness took form, became solid and grew a knowledge of its' own. Maybe the monster under the bed is real after all and the knowledge we hold so dear to us is the very tool of darkness. Does our knowledge cloud our minds? Do we tell ourselves that the shadows are just shadows? Do we assure each other that the monsters are all in the mind, that they cannot be real? And if so, has darkness itself turned inside out? What is shadow if no more than darkness created by light? So what is our knowledge, if not lies..forged by darkness?
We are turned in on ourselves, and on each other. The light burns coldly now. Wherever we stand we cast a shadow, and only when light surrounds us are we safe. We are never safe from the dark. It's there, in each and every one of us. Doubt. Suspicion. Fear.
And sometimes, the safest place to be..is in Darkness.
