As bitter night wears deep,
Bright gleams of life in the distance.
Halos, so far from glory,
Light the bugs, or who’s world we care not.
Such tiny specks of life
Clinging to their false suns.
In the small worlds around the streetlights.
How small, though, must our gods see us?
Flittering around our own lantern in the dark.
But here, in one small corner, in one heart,
Such glory lives.
Whole worlds, bright and wondrous,
Of beauty and horror.
Universes glowing in each small heart.
Around our lamp, spinning in the dark.
What small things we are.
Grains of sand amongst Titians,
But with such dreams, like burning suns,
Blinking into the darkness.
And one heart, in one small corner,
Watching bugs dance around their false suns
(A thousand worlds, glowing down the streets and into the night)
And knowing,
What dreams they must have.