when darkness surrounds me
my eyes play with lenses to
adjust to my reality
the birds, like swallows
are replaced with owls and
the grass is humming with a cricket’s song
silent bats zoom through the air
and I am left standing there
who said life ends when the daylight fades
who gave all the loved activity to the sun
and left the moon all alone
with every phase
it lights the darkest crevice of my thoughts
awakening the fear of being misunderstood
yet cooling the wrath that boils within
she collaborates with mother earth
pulling in a grass hammock
forming its own memory of my body
the breeze curls around me
running its fingers through my kink
the stillness of the night reminds me I am still alive-
the moon shines brightest above the clouds
so shall my soul
