Comfortable terror...

Shadows stalk the city;
ravenous beasts, lurking,
prowling,
waiting for a chance..
..and then they have you.
Isolated from the electric world you know,
taken and kept from inveterate day,
you embrace as an old friend
that fear...
that from which you've always shied...
it is now all that keeps you alive;
you live and breathe,
simply to fear.
The eerie, unnatural light
under which you were incubated
should frighten you more,
yet you cling to it,
like a babe to a mother.
Comfort me... hold me...
keep the world away...
But now the beast that is reality has you,
keeping you from your true parent...
Will you open your eyes?
You have nothing to fear here...
Only salvation...
Will you run from this blinding,
blinkering society,
and finally see?
It is in the shadows
that we can finally see the world.
Not even television can keep those away.
It just makes them seem scary.
Run into them.
See.
It is the light you should fear...