In bed at night
if you close your eyes
tightly enough
your interior screens
turn white
Exactly as hard
as you resist that
is how hard it
will hit you
When you find it happening
in daylight too
you will pull your skin tight
over your hardest bones
and petrify
All that pale light streaming
blanding and blinding at once
makes this a hard place
and making yourself harder
in the comforting dark
will keep you breathing
but in bed at night
as the whiteness
comes down
comes stifling down
open your eyes wide
to your darkness and
find yourself softening
to something like peace
Dark Matter 