The Door by Kyler Wandler

Authors Note: This story relates to the Novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is about the duality of man and the tender state we are in at mind. The subject was interesting and fun.

Within the mind lies a door, and within this door a room. The door is situated in the dark and uncharted fathoms of the mind, hidden and repressed by the age old fear of man's duality, the fear of the darkness behind the light which humanity strives for. Something dark is behind the door, too dark to know or see, and so it remains a mystery. All we know is that behind it there lies a room. Something within the room throws and swiches the balance of the mind to and fro as if it were only a paper boat at the mercy of a wave, and so naturally we hide from it. Such power over ourselves within ourselves caused by oursleves is not only confusing but entirely horrifying. We arethe light seeking not to brighten the darkeness, but to hide from it, for the dark is too powerful a foe for mere mortals. So we hide. To fight the dark is impossible, to destroy it is to destroy ourselves. The light cannot exist without the dark in the same way that noise cannot exist without silence or life without death. We are the life, the noise, the light in a soul of division, and within this small room we store all of the things which we hate yet crave. And so be warned, within this room is your equal, within this room is your opposite. Let the door be, it is not one for contemplation, it is not for exploration. It is for preservation,and so it should preserved as is.