Time And The Sky Revolve Around Us

There are stars beyond the distance of everything we can see. There is nothing out there close to the touch, even though a single hand can blot out the night sky and take all eternity away.

The dawning light can take the worries of the night away too. We can feel the coldness of distance in those dark hours so we make up stories to give us comfort and put ourselves back at the centre of everything.

Time and the sky revolve around us, we can tell ourselves tales to make the sun appear and the winter run away. We can ascribe and see patterns where there is no cause except the push of life to keep on keeping on.

A day begins and later it ends and we remain alone in the darkness once again. It is no wonder we do not want to be alone, that we draw curtains against it. We are frightened of the dark – what it hides and what it reveals.

We create the monsters that haunt our dreams and all the creatures that hide in dark places and in shadows; we bring them out into the night to warn ourselves that the darkness holds all our secrets too.