BLACK LIGHT

Hold my thought
And elope with me
Into this subdued night
That’s passing with such ignorance
In the dazed eyes 
Of passive beholders
Lying awake inside their homes

No, this night isn’t dark
It’s a bright pool of day
But is it just darkness
Along which your image
Of night shall linger?
Forging yet another mind
By primitive notions
And fears of the unique?

However so, if you’d like to know
Dry, brazen afternoons behold
A gust of desolation
That howls in its blankness
When no hounds wag their tails
When no passengers await by the rails
For heat reigns this night
In flashes of a raining black light

I come from a simpler time
That borders on the line of vintage
When the haunts of a restless summer
Kept us hungover until September.
However, we’re here, not to drift away
Safe and protected against UV rays
But friend, when 46 degrees of heat
Refuse adversely to retreat
And power cuts paralyse appliances
Will you not throw the windows open
And vacate all fabrications
Those that condition your home?

-K.G.