Still Awake?

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Decorative layer

of the movement of existence

absent –

blanket of light and its shady effects –

attribution to what's left un-covered instead –

Night –

a cold, irreducible,

but mainly ideal,

beauty.

Turning of the day of the day nocturnal,

totality buried to a softly stilling tone,

a reality of negations oftentimes misconceived in both origin and purpose,

fullness of a vision of a world that cannot be fully seen

coming on.

Forward all the disappearance that daylight leaves unseen;

Forward the incongruous impression of something that cannot make an impression but lingers in continuousness

all the same.

This,

enjoyed,

so often –

time taken taking in presence at its least defined –

misrepresented by the daybreak alarm of summerfilled tradition

as some wanton suppression of the real,

darkness called out from the frontlight : Instrument of Hiding –

belief goes: light is truth or,

at the very least, the undeposable conveyor of the true,

and its opposite, in turn, the shutting down of the true programme of the True.

BUT

In languid quiet,

monumental beyond sizeable

disappearance comes out

to linger in the heavy pull

apart from the flowable of things:

reach for a pocket-watch see Time finally

(though never quite).

The nocturnal opening into the closure,

head towards a space of existence with fewer places to go,

to an existing always more abbreviated because away from the successions of time as immediate history

away from time dimming the ongoing consciousness of a long-term project:

permeating absence offers presence stripped of its most distractive capacities

In the hours of dead light,

life shorter not in the sense of years,

but in the experience of the moment,

which is only at most half of what time turns out to be –

a vision enlightened by movement;

a movement blinded by light.

supposing all that covers and reveals,

night shines down most powerfully –

the one that almost covers everything

and therefore almost reveals everything.

Darkness,

shows everything happening, again.

more peaceful than sleep,

very different,

almost incompatible, meaning to the Day.