Black Light

Crawled out from beneath the rock

Crustacean rough and steely strong

A weathered eye with a ticking heart

I know where and why but not how long

 

Exposed against the night

Colors flip and reunite

Under the black light

 

Sucker punched the misery truck

Suis Generis. Random luck.

Trick the body but the mind won’t follow

The mission is mighty but the foundation is hollow

 

Revealed by the night

Switching the polarity of sight

Against the black light

 

I work far below the surface

Waiting for semaphore of light in the dark

And they play for me with synergy, lethargy, fantasies

Broken needles and dead batteries

 

Suspended by the night

It’s funny the things you see

When you flip on the black light