"Do
you believe in ghosts ?"
“Do
you believe in ghosts nanna?” asked my daughter
“Yes
and No” I said, complicating the matter,
In
the day, when there is light and everything is bright
I
am a rational man, my reason sharp and my logic tight,
But
as light fades, beckoning the night
reason
slackens and imagination awakens !
Invisible
figures and eerie voices taunt me and frighten me,
the
courage by day abandons me. Doubts and fears buzz like a bee ;
A
proud atheist by day, I am shaking in my pants,
Pleading
to the gods, muttering chants
But
when again the night slips away
I am by daylight .. bright and gay
the
previous night, now an amusing secret
between
me and myself, to none I will let
and
now I am a rational man, flaunting reason and logic,
Until darkness seeds doubts, when I'll need god and magic
