Light Switch

Lights out! No talking!

Somebody flicks the switch

And all the cares of the day

Dissolve

Into an abyss

Of darkroom curtain black

Blocking out the slightest chink

Of life

Launching the nightly

Odyssey into that

Alternative world of soft

Focus

Safe, predictable

But finite until a

Pang of hunger calls you

To rouse

And you run from the

Light fumbling for the

Switch again and again but

You can’t

Find it despite all

The diligent practice

And never can because it’s

Too dark.

John H Davies

26^th XII 2010