Dreams Of Light And Nothingness Poem by Subodini Menon

Darkness doesn't bother me.
Want to know what does?
That slice of faint sunshine
Perched upon the horizon,
With the promise of a new day,
A day that never comes.
The night doesn't hurt me.
I can survive,
Live and flourish even
In its murky, musty numbness.
Just don't try
Don't make me feel
With dreams of light,
only for it to later burst
into a thousand shiny pieces.
A thousand shiny pieces of nothingness.