a light open lunchtime world

outside at high noon

with everything bright

and seeing for distance

other people around

and voices can be heard

and everyone awake

unlike last night

in a dark room

close down under covers

hiding from the abstract

dark monster peeking

through the bathroom door

from the top corner

of the mirror

giving me terrors

in the delusion of having

woken up

in the middle of the night

and being scared as hell

without even knowing

what i’m scared of

but certainly made possible

by it being dark and nighttime

inside a small room

with nobody else around