Can’t run a simple example with await

I tried to run the following code from the command prompt:

const read = require('read').read;

const password = await read({
  prompt: "Password: ",
  silent: true,
  replace: "*" //optional, will print out an asterisk for every typed character 
});
console.log("Your password: " + password);

with the command node read.js and got:

SyntaxError: await is only valid in async functions and the top level bodies of modules

What should I do to make this work?

Should I add exports or something like this?

I simply want it to read the password from the command line and print it.