Thoughts on Darkness

Do you fear the dark?

After tonight, I don't fear it at all. In fact, I embrace it with open arms.

I was walking home from work, and it was somewhere around eleven o' clock at night. Along West Main Street, the darkness was kept at bay by the various streetlights. I, for no apparent reason, looked up at the sky, gazing at the few stars and the unusually bright moon.

This image made me think about another walk home a couple days ago, when the moon wasn't out, and the further I got away from the town, the more stars I would see, and the more the darkness of night felt like a long lost friend trying to keep me company on the bike path, an alternate route I take when I'm feeling especially brave at night.
Remembering that night, I looked around me, my eyes slowly decoding the darkness. Then, I felt something I haven't felt in a long time.

Peace.

All my worries, all my stress, all my everything faded away on that one walk, a walk that revealed the darkness for what it was meant to truly be.
Call me a lunatic, but I now believe that the darkness was not just put there to scare us into jumping underneath our covers and become paranoid as we await the rays of the sun to slice the darkness to ribbons. No... I believe...

...there is a darkness that we shouldn't shun, but should instead try to understand.

Heh, man I really do sound crazy.

Here is some beautiful dark music to think with Here
Because the youtube video thing isn't cooperating.