Light Behind Dark (Into The Light/Out Of The Night) Poem by Joshua Lewis White

The sun sets behind a blank mountain range
'Fire' he yells as the colour red enshrouds the soldier's vision
Everybody runs, crying
When did it end up like this?
An old man tells a tale of a young boy
Frogspawn / Hopscotch
Nobody realises the true nature
The primordial reason for anything
Fate/Luck/God
Do you think they'll drop the bomb/Should I be worried
It's funny you should say that
On the windowsill a bear attacks small villagers made of wax
A floating face apears as music travels far and wide
Microwave/Into the light
...
Stuck in my head
A worm burrows into its target
Scraps/Scraps/Scraps
Slats/Slats/Slats?
Where did it happen? When/Why/Who?
Everybody turns around in awe/in horror
A crunching sound
A peeling of the skin
Piggy, what have they done?
Eyebrows fall down the face of a young maid
She? He? Who?
What happened here? What's all this then?
When? Why? Where? What? Who?
Yes? No?
The vampyre turns, blood tinged teeth bared in the light
Into the light/ Out of the night
Exit through the giftshop
Chekhov/Checkout
A man wanders aimlessly under the streetlight, kicking a can/a stone?
Inner horror/Inner trauma/Inner light
Window into the future
Into the past
The man from space/The day of the robot
Can we rebuild him?
Piles of parts lie restless
Everyone knows you're insane
Pretentious/Pretend
Quoth the Raven
'Can I have some more? '
A blackened staircase
A figure descends holding a knife
Steel reflecting in the light of the moon
Are we really here
Or are my thoughts just an illusion
Are yours?