Eigengrau

 

to not see the darkness

not the darkness

– please –

– just the flimsiest of lights – 

– only an eyeful of light –

– hollow out my eyelids

so the darkness escapes –

the scarry place

– the why we invented fire

and bay windows –

– the night we can handle –

not the darkness

– the darknesses of the heart

we have learnt to endure –

not the dark of the dark

that which thrums in our heart

silhouettes shadows over shadows

– so our eyes will choose

a greying of the unsight

over the blind nothingness –

too deathlike not to be it

not to wreck all senses

– so we wait for daybreak –

– flickers of light –

– floating afore our eyes –

– in the eigenlight –

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