If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
The house settles after dark with small sounds you never used to notice: the fridge clicking off, a pipe ticking as it cools, a car slowing outside and then moving on. If someone you loved used to share these rooms, those sounds may once have meant nothing at all. Now any one of them can bring you upright in bed, listening.