Darkness as the Company You Keep

i do everything with the lights off 

think

feel

express a thought,

 ramble into another Tuesday surprised

 that it has come

it is my way of ignoring the sun 

my aversion to any form of light 

trying to find me or let the 

grief notting so tightly in my veins 

loosen up and escape 

i object to any form of light

 to keep you in 

i distance myself from the glow of 

prayer, laughter and other ordinary things 

that signal I have somehow forgotten 

you 

but no such thing happens when 

the lights are off 

it is a one-minute silence nothing can break