LAST ONE TO LEAVE THE ROOM

LAST ONE TO LEAVE THE ROOM

Gaze into this bowl of light.

See wasp spiders crawl over purple whales

sheep eyes, sleep eyes

swallow, suck

wallow round

deep down, until

like a python

night fingers my throat

squeezing my breath

crushing the light out of me, until

I squeak.

Light becomes night;

night without reason

treacherous night

unforgiving night

don’t go gently night

ferocious night

starry infinite night

In my last nanosecond 

I awake

vaporizing night, until

a glow worm appears

re-igniting light;

light pulsating

throbbing light

light of reason

loyal light

forgiving light

child whispering light

laughing light

starburst  light

light flooding into consciousness

light giving light to life again.

Janet Daniel