Are you afraid of the dark?

I noticed that during the day I don't think about death and I am not afraid of it. But as soon as I turn the lights off at night, a lot of the times I start thinking about dying. And I start thinking irrationally about what will happen to me. As a child, I had to sleep with the light on, and even now I would like to sleep with the TV on but the TV is broken from our careless movers. So that is why I have been thinking all this crazy stuff at night lately. Its strange to think that darkness messes with the mind so much. What if I was blind? Well maybe its not only the dark, maybe its the thought of everyone around me sleeping and a sense of loneliness. Or maybe its because I am about to drift into sleep witch is already kind of like dying. Anyway this reminds me of a poem I once read by the famous poet D. Brown

When I was 17 I died

Every night I dreamed I was alive

Sometimes, my blood comes back to me

and the white counts back up

I dreamed I knew you

for more than a breath

But death is better entertained

with the loneliness in my eyes