For Fear Of Shadows

I’ve met madmen

and fools

who earnestly spent

their days / covering 

the windows

with electrical tape 

for fear that the stars

might burn them 

brushing me away 

when I pleaded with them

to believe 

that the brightness was 

far away and in the sky 

but I didn’t count you 

among their number

how sad / it must be

to spend your hours

quenching 

your own light 

for fear

of shadows