Can darkness ascend
It certainly can
It creeps up from the black earth
It seeps out of the pores of plants
As bushes and bracken thicken
It billows out of the bark
As trees inflate
And cars in the lot are more easily found
Defined and located by a Keyring fob bleep
whilst in the confines of an artificial stone wall
perimeter enclosure [kept tight]
night is banished by people armed with urban angst
faux dreads kept at bay in the light guilt-free glee
cavorting high on electric light
parades of confidence bubbles of fluorescence
night is history for now is the end
of history
away from a primitive home of nature reliance
and even beyond the freecrete wall out there over the ridge
there is a beauty bound in battery light
watching the motorway with my hands on hips proud
its upward curve an automated stream
an annotated flow of red tail lights contra flowed
white headlights in an organised synchronicity of organised lanes
everyone toes the line no room for rebels there
not down there
strict discipline to avoid all out chaos
even in the night
night
and it can still win we all know that
chances still stalk the light
the night sprites gather and sit astride two hills
my candle held high and space has done a volteface
it is here with me on the ground now
but the sky is lazified in a dull glow
and Cassiopia is there but low quite low
not much else to see through the light pollution
hee hee
a new venerable invention of the rocket age
we can now sully the stars themselves with our light
even the black night the
night
polluted
my candle blows out but I am prepared
I have a light
On my mobile phone it is a handy appliance to have
My own weapon of light
Clean and cold and to the ready I can call
Bombay if I wish
Or a distant war zone ring a Disney phone tune
Somewhere in Khandahar perhaps
And I head home
Wary of traps.