My home - The beautiful dark

Its so cold. I can't feel anything. The frozen mist is spreading over my body. But there is light. Lots of light. I can't understand what's going on. How can the light be cold? Maybe this means that the dark is warm. Hot even. Maybe I should hide in the shadows more often. The mere thought of the veils worn by the mistress of dark gives me solace. It should, since the light has let me down. People worship light. Call it god. They revel in its beauty. But I can't feel a thing.Do you know why? I am a creature of the dark. A child of the warm blackness.

Contrary to what people believe(rather what they want to believe), the creatures of the dark are not evil. They are far from it. We are God's creatures too. Just as the other creatures, we too deserve love.

What is light? Is light only the brightness the sun spreads on us ? Then, the brightness the moon in the sky and the stars in space give, must make the dark brighter than the light. Is light the warmth of the sun? Has not the moon warmed many lonely hearts for millenia? Or is light good and better because people say it is? Is it better because it has nothing to hide? Well, on both counts,we see that people even call the "good" bad, when things don't go their way. Also, it is the unseen and hidden that has provoked the thoughs and emotions of thousands of people for centuries. This has resulted in so many improvements.If you think about it, even the angels come to the earth to check on us at night. So is the dark so bad?

Do you want to know why I think people hate the dark? The dark is a complex world of beauty and mystery and knowledge. The creatures of the night are the only ones allowed to partake of the fruits in the field of shadows. This knowledge is life changing. The people of the light resent us for our prowess and the mysteries that we are masters of and so have created evil rumors surrounding the veil that guards our secrets. Consumed by jealousy, they have portrayed us as allies of the devil.

Whatever the reason, the light and the dark have been unable to get along for millenia. It sounds funny, because, light and dark are representations of the day and the night. Both essential to mortals. Still, when people speak of them, they exaggerate the beauty of the day, while our secrets and knowledge are left to rot from the place they came from - the shadows.

AGNI