Things That Go Bad In The Dark

Darkness always terrified me for it brought back painful memories of my childhood days.

“This is the last straw!” shouted my mother in a shrill voice as she dropped something heavily to the floor.I was in my bedroom and could hear the quarrel between my parents late one night. She reacted angrily to my father’s new iob which kept him occupied with meeting and projects almost every night. Very much neglected for two continuous months, my mother’s patience snapped that evening.

I listened and shivered silently in the darkness. I cannot describe the fear. The darkness seemed to suffocate me, destroying all the sense of security I had, I badly wanted to have the lights on but the bulb had fused the day before. My father had promised to replace a new bulb that evening but the job was delayed by his new job. That was their first and worst quarrel between my parents in their ten years of marriage. Clutching my teddy bear close to me, I whispered a prayer that my parents would not end up with a separation. Such morbid thoughts were unusual for a five-year old child but not so when one is exposed to adult conversations. Fortunately, the quarrel only led to a few days of noncommunication between my parents. Realising his mis.takes, my dad rescheduled his priorities and was thus successful in his reconciliation with my mother.

It was also in the darkness that I lost my pet dog Snowy that same year. We had just come home from supper and were walking towards the house with Snowy running ahead of us. All of a sudden, the streetlights went off along a short stretch of road. It was pitch darkness and as we walked cautiously together, I called out for Snowy. My heart was cold with fear and discomfort. What followed seemed to be within a flash.There was a screeching sound of a car and Snowy was hit. I was horrified to see Snowy dead on the road and the bloody sight was firmly imprinted on my mind. Although my parents comforted me with a new dog, I lost my appetite for a week and cried for Snowy in my sleep.

Consequently, for two years in my life following these two incidents, I often associated darkness with unhappy events. I slept with lights on throughout the night so as to get rid of frightening images that often flitted across my mind. It was only much later that my parents helped me to overcome this fear of darkness.

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