Darkness and Me

What is light without darkness? The snippet that follows is an attempt to share the relationship a nyctophile shares with darkness.

Shruti Parthasarathy
Shruti Parthasarathy
06 Jun, 2020 • 1 min read min read • it
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Darkness and Me

The darkness and I share a deep relationship.

I don't see it and it can't see me.

I feel it's presence all over me and it senses me, occasionally.

I don't need to acknowledge it's presence and neither does it acknowledge mine.

We both like this.

No questions asked. No answers to be given.

The strangeness and emptiness, that we are both familiar with, and that common fear: Light.

Light that drives you away and fills me with reality.

And suddenly, I feel your absence.

Who knows darkness could be a good companion.


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