Darkness spilt in here today, bled more like it. Seeped between cracks in the linoleum and slowly climbed the wall.
Soon it covered the fluorescents, started to drip, formed a puddle on my arm didn't burn like I expected.
Rather,it soothed and gently reassured; told me how light is conditional but darkness is lasting.
Darkness told me why fireflies prefer the light: It absorbs them. Leaves them suspended, they're not fireflies anymore. Just light. Empty space, hanging there.
At dusk they return, burdened by selfhood, remembering what NOTHING felt like: anatomy betrays them too soon.
Darkness has to go now, back through the linoleum. It tells me that people like me, lingerers, are never far from the darkness, you just have to see through All these **** lights.