The lights in your eyes
Flip the switch of night
The rest of the world goes
Dark by comparison
Confusing the crickets

I think if you left
There'd be monsters
Under my bed
Biding their time until I slept
Sharpening their fangs
Practicing their persuasive voices
Whispering "join us"
Until I was one of the things
To be afraid of
Hiding in a child's closet

I think if you left
I'd go blind
Like one of those fish
That lives in caves
Evolving sightless for eons
Bumping into rocks and
Not really caring
Imagining the world through echolocation
And the water's vibrations
Mating for life
Because love is blind
Just like cave fishes
And one fin in the dark
Is as good as another

I think if you left with those lights in your eyes
I'd become something not myself
I'd become unrecognizable
Trying to catch a glimpse of the sunrise
Far away on the horizon
And ultimately shielding my nocturnal eyes
From a light that could blind me
Taking comfort in that old familiar song
The crickets sing