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NaPoWriMo Day 20

How To Not Fear The Dark

When I was young, I feared the dark

and all it might conceal.

For every Thing of which I’d read

the dark made somehow real.

But that’s not all no far from all

I had a brother too

And scaring me, I swear it was

his favourite thing to do.

For every empty windowed house

he’d have a different tale

I begged him not to start again

my pleas would not avail

Then witches, ghosts and demons too

went racing through my brain

And all of these, my brother too

it seemed lived for my pain.

But I learned how to overcome

the fear that I was taught

Now I will share with you my friend

the answer I had sought.

I do not fear the dark today

nor what may lurk inside

If it were worthy of my fear

it wouldn’t have to hide.

I sit now in a darkened room

eyes closed and type each word

My demons cluster close to me

unseen and seldom heard.

Cheers,