Scary Movies

 (soundscape by Hal McGee with Chris Phinney)

Dark energy and the unknown.

Why assign evil to the unknown

when it is just the unknown?

Evil is perception filtered through fear.

Fear is not a thing like space

though you can cut it like a knife

in the night of your mind.

Scary movies are not scary.

They are tools to manipulate our shame,

our fear of getting caught at what our mommas

told us not to do at age 3 or 8 or 13.

We talk of emotions

as if forced on us by external beings

or given as gifts from angels,

anything but owning our perceptions.

Owning perception or owning anything

denotes responsibility

and the child within wants to be free

and blameless, unharmed

and eternally loved,

that warm happy feeling

we talk of coming from without,

the gift from angels and from mom.

No matter what its origin

it keeps the dark energy at bay,

the evil and the unknown,

where fear is a thing like space

that creeps up on us in movies.