As I turned to leave, I looked toward the route that would be quickest and safest. I gripped a sharp sense of security in my pocket, with fidgeting hands, and turn the other way. As the familiar landscape crept along beside me, I wondered where the monsters were. It must have been only in my head tonight. but as I made it to each street light, each one turned off as I passed. The cars seemed to stop passing by. And then the lights turned back on when I looked back in the distance. This happened once, twice, three tomes. After getting lost on a wrong turn, I double back. I once again could not take a lit path. And even on my own street, I glanced into the shadows. I eventually find my dwelling. As I fumble with the keys, I breath a sigh of relief. But I wonder why I'm always so paranoid, when even the street lights do not cross my path, nor follow me into the night.