✧ city lights and fireflies ✧

• 7:22 AM •

over.

it's what the night is now,

as the darkness is vanquished

by the rays of our closest star.

the universe is an endless night

only broken by flaming balls of gas

just like this one

clumped together by the force that governs it.

how likely was it that we would have a day at all?

I should be getting ready for school

now starting in a few minutes

I should be peeling back the dark curtain

temporarily lain on my daytime worries

but instead I leave the curtains closed

the light not catching the page of my to-do list

or the sheen of my computer screen

or the clock that tells me to rush through

I can only ignore for so long,

but that doesn't change the fact that

in a world that thrives on light

I'm most alive when it's gone.