“Tell me, son,
Are you afraid of the dark?”
“No,
But I am afraid of darkness.”
“You speak as if there’s a difference.”
“And you pretend they’re both the same.”
“What is one if not the other?”
“You are asking, ‘What is evil if not demons?’”
“Where have you seen this separation?”
“The chest,
For it hides from the outside what’s within.”
“Then how must we deal with each?”
“Let one obey the law of nature.
While the other must be forced to obey.”
“Is forcing obedience not oppression?”
“The difference between a friend and a pet,
Depends on where your dog will piss.”

Ghazi Mase is a Bengali American Muslim raised in Brooklyn. Ghazi writes to discover what is buried inside, and hopes that his writing will tell you more about him than he can tell you about himself.