Everyone's scared of something.
Maybe that's why God is supposed to be light:
He's the opposite of nothing,
The antithesis of black, of loneliness, of death.
The scariest concept, of course,
Being the lack of God, the lack of life,
The lack of a future that is certain.
I was a boy who was scared of my death,
The hangman's rope, the murderer's grin.
Many years ahead increased the value of life;
The concept of old age drew a frown.
But as I grew, in stature and wisdom,
I found myself less afraid to be weak.
Once we smile at him, the Reaper's a fool,
And death surrenders all of its weight.