Understanding

What is this light that disturbs the peace?
Illuminating shadow without clarity
Disturbing ideas half-understood
and a dark, unnamed thing slithers, uncoils
Uncomfortable in the sudden cold, in unfamiliar light.

No questions prod, no answers hurt
Just this strange glow that lights the comfortable dark.
The dark is simple, unchallenged and enfolding.
It welcomes strange silences, holds them unquestioned.
This light, though-
It creeps out from somewhere unknown
Unwanted, distasteful
A cold, watery, brittle light-
Stretching grasping fingers
Towards truths better left in the dark.