I Fear the Darkness Within Me
Kimmie Blincoe
This fear of the dark is not that of when the night has fallen and the only light is thousands of miles away in the sky, but of that which is inside of me. It is of that which makes me cringe and cower with thoughts of how I could hurt you, thoughts of what I could do to leave you as broken and as bloody as I am on the inside. It is a darkness that has left me so broken and so lost that the only thing that could possibly scare me more than this, is this Pandora’s Box inside of me. It is opening and pouring its contents of unearthly darkness into the only light that I can still see; going far beyond shrouding it like a cloud, but instead, completely extinguishing your light. And spreading from an internal darkness, into a dark world.
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