Scared Of The Dark

• Billie Raffety, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2014

Nobody really knows what darkness is. But if the shadows could somehow lift, the knowledge of that miracle could possibly save us all.

Personally I kind of believe that darkness is just a way to escape, a way to escape the peer pressure that life burdens us with.

I mean, we can’t be happy all the time. That would be stressful and well, PHYSICALLY impossible.

But maybe, just maybe, the secret lies beyond the non-psychopathic geniuses and creepy people you glance upon in shopping malls.

Maybe the answer is too simple and 'un-sciency' for our over thinking, ‘way to filled up with ads I saw on TV’ minds to handle.

But what if when we actually found out the answer, it will be too unknown for our over commercialised brains to understand.

So frankly that should explain why I am scared of the dark.


Billie Raffety.