The Power of Darkness

You cannot see them. They give off no peculiar smell to reveal their presence or nearness. They come and go without as much as a whisper of sound. They enter you with no taste to betray them. And you cannot seize one with your hand to bring to a neighbor or friend to prove that they exist. And yet the powers of darkness are very real and much of their evil work is possible and successful exactly because they seem so far removed from it, and as though they have nothing to do with it. And to deny...