Darkness

I might avoid the shade and love the light,

And squint against the sun and glaring sand,

Read ancient stories from a lamp-lit book,

And watch the world news go from bad to worse.

Or might I step uncertain into night

Wide eyes unseeing, reaching out a hand

To probe the fearful darkness, and then look

With awestruck wonder at a universe?

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