Darkness is not merely the absence of light.

I thought of this statement as I drove from work yesterday. It was dark…raining. The sky was overcast, and street lamps, head lights and stop lights struggled to cast their beams. The light was driven to the ground by the imposing darkness. The heavy sky made me feel like when I was a child and I hid under the quilt…the muffled world was out there...suppressed.