"Beyond"
By: Lauren Laguna
Beyond me fall the shadows of long forgotten things, cast by
the searchlight burning my back with wanting,
so much wanting directed on my head. Want to know, pick, peel, chew. Want the
information kept from you. No. Do not ask. Questions will not meet answers, will
only spread the black shapes, speed them further ahead— Stop! No more wanting. No more answers to be had.
Throw away your searchlight. Get it off my head. Can’t you see what you’re
doing placing the dark ahead, putting shadows in my future instead of letting
them remain dead? You have the searchlight, but now I have one too. I choose to
flip the switch, flood the room, turn on you, obliterate any shadow—
Black, to grey, to white.
Beyond me falls the light.
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