Crimson light is glowing in your window pane
Embers rising slowly through the midnight rain
You're all tucked up and cozy and I try in vain
To shake off the coldest darkness and I'm going insane.

Falling stars are streaking 'cross a curdled sky
Thought I saw the glint of one within your eye
Your door looks slightly open so I make a try
But it's bolted on the inside so I walk on by.

I trudge on through the landscape where my memory's kept
To the edge of the precipice where the lemmings leaped
But I can't even go through with it, I'm so inept
So I wade back through the puddles of the tears I wept.

There's a howling wild hyena hiding near the path
And as I pass by near it I can hear it laugh
So I lash out instantly and drown it in a bloodbath
It whimpers as it pays the price for my unleashed wrath.

My head is oozing hunger like a pot that's cracked
Bones aching like they're bent and stretched upon the rack
So I sidle up so slowly and rejoin the pack
And settle in to howling at the moon and back.

Corners cut of crimson crystal, constant change awaits
Colours cracked from cardinal cubes as symmetry rotates
Reflections of fragmented form refracted by a mirror
Pretty patterns point pulsating from outer to the inner.

Living light in luscious limes, reds and heliotrope
Softly sparkling, spinning surge in my kaleidoscope
Azure and amber equally, lemon and orange warm
Shards of shattered sugar stems in shiny starburst form.

Perfect, pleasing paradigms and easy on the eye
Subtle, sweet and simply spun and yet I wonder why
Force is futile, folly worse and try hard as I might
It?ll never reveal its wonder if not pointed at the light.