Dust

Darkness glowed ominously through the Dust

Illuminations evaporated into the sorrowful black air

It flowed endlessly over me

My body—my eyes—drawn to an emptiness

That only I endeavor to understand

Sinking into the upholstery

Enveloped by the murky air

The cloth of reality began to shiver and ripple

Erupting into oblivion as visions

That only I see danced from the dimness

Ghosts and Phantoms levitated in tandem

The flash of Hamlet’s sword

Glittered and amplified

The ring of Professor Higgins’s voice

That only I could hear

The tender gleam in Juliet’s eyes

Blazed, transforming the darkness

Into a spotlight

For Brutus’s betrayal

That only I felt stab into my heart

Gentle radiance,

Remnants of hundreds of souls

Bathed me in heavenly light

Specters of long forgot characters

That only I distinguished reliving their infinite roles

My eyes, starry, dampened

Reflected the innate glow

The light of lost multitudes

A dying prayer

That only I held sacred

Ripped from my introspection

The darkness burst

Fading into a shower of fluorescence

The visions smoothed over the stage to Dust again

That not only I may glimpse