You can’t have darkness without light. Or can you? I guess neither one needs a comparison to Be. The fear of the darkness, and our love/hate relationship with it, comes from our biological need to see what is going on around us to survive. We need both to be healthy, though. Sleep and activity. I think you touched upon this topic in a refreshingly calm and soothing way.

Nice contrasts. This story starts of very ‘dark’. But gradually we see the ‘lighter’ side of things. Sort of yin-yang-ish I guess.

Lovely and thoughtful peace. I like the feel or the tone to it, somehow melancholic but hopeful. I mean this as a compliment of the highest order, but it reads like Morgan Freeman should be reading it.