S c a r e d ?

E   v   e   r ?

I remember I didn’t sleep so well as a little kid,

hmmmmmmmmmmm,

s  t  i  l  l       d  o  n ‘ t.        .       .

When I laid in bed at night,

l        a        t        e,

when everyone else and the World

was sleeping, i

t was then I’d see them:

S         H         A         D         O         W         S

Now we all don’t know what

T  H  E      S  H  A  D  O  W      K  N  O  W  S,

do we?

.          .          .but we do know

M        O        R        E !

We know that the SHADOW

can never hurt us,

in fact,

can only really ever bother,

bug,

pester us

when we not so much allow it entrance,

but actually be the Key-Keeper to our imagination.       .       .

I   d i d.        .        .

I made it real easy for the Shadow.        .        .

I not only gave it a key,

I took the door off it’s hinges.         .         .

Every night.           .          .

until that night;

That night was different.          .          .

That night after everyone was sound asleep

and I lay there awake,

I saw THE SHADOW again.          .          .

G                  U                L                  P

We were staring each other down;

I could swear I saw it move,

taunting me,

making fun of me and I knew right then,

very clearly I had three solid choices:

1) I      c o u l d      S c r e a m
2) I      c o u l d      R u n
3) I       c o u l d      t r y      t o      m a k e      i t      t o      m y      p a r e n t s            r  o o m.       .       .

.           .           .and then,

 the     L  i  g  h  t  i  n  g      hit!

Literally,

the Lightning from a Summer-middle-of-the-night-storm,

lit up the room

and every time it did it

T     H     E         S    H    A   D    O   W

would disappear.        .        .

Yet,

O  P  T  I  O  N      N  U  M  B  E  R     4

was the best one of all:

Shadow’s      actually     need      light      to      make      a      Shadow

and  LIGHT  is what obliterates them.        .        .

I became a SHADOW-THROWER that night,

and every night since.          .          .

.        .        .Amazing how little the Shadow knows

.         .         .or ever did.         .         .

Even more Amazing,

how much we do and will.           .           .

If________________.     .     .

Pay  A T T E N T I O N,  Class:

Bring your Light

to Some One’s Shadow–

It ceases to exist.           .          .

Now,

T H A T ‘ S     P O W E R

and  it’s

Y   O   U   R ‘  S

to yield.      .      .

or worse yet,

n               o               t.          .          .

N i g h t