What was that noise in your your dark room?

Do you want to look?

Do you dare?

It could be a burglar.

It could be some previously unknown horror.

Lurking just out of sight.

***

Maybe it is better to think about something else.

How about that local news?

That guy got elected again, yeah, you know the one.

The one that you thought nobody in their right mind would vote for.

You know that he will continue ruining your area.

It seems like nobody else will see it until it becomes truly intolerable.

***

OK, OK, something else instead…

Any good movies recently?

There seem to be less and less.

Reruns and rehashes that all try to force a message.

Trying to escape a pattern only to end up in a worse position.

They just never make them like the classics anymore.

***

Fine, a different topic.

How has your health been recently?

Things seem to hurt more and more every year.

That chronic condition is not actually under control anymore is it.

Tired of complaining to others about problems.

I wonder how much longer you can handle it.

***

All darker than the darkest shades you know.

A cycle feeding on itself and keeping you awake.

A longing for escape that you are not sure how to control.

Blame cast on the temperature or position but misassigned.

You fluff your pillow and turn over hoping for a different outcome.

So… what about that noise in the dark?