Abhor the Light!

Carl E. Reed

One suffers by light, takes solace in darkness.

                                                                                                         —Anonymous 

True horror haunts no bottomless abyss— 

bludgeoning, brute-force horror prefers light.  

You doubt? Reflect a moment; think on this: 

dark-mantling night & shadow obscure sights 

'twould otherwise unhinge the minds of men 

illumined by flaring incandescence. 

Better blacken gore; shroud again—again— 

broken bones, ripped flesh, putrid excrescence. 

In antiseptic rooms by bright photons 

slack-jawed, fixed-gazed corpses are dismembered; 

atomic demons dance in kilotons 

detonated o’er fired city centers.  

Do not go into the light! Gentling dark

veils all wounds & leaves no visible mark.