Tuesday Poem. Can't see it

When the world is black

and the colours you can see

are behind your eyelids

Bright as

Neurons

Flashing in the night -

signalling

a Bright and

dark beginning.

Reach out your arms

and feel the solid world

beneath your fingertips -

Rough and

real 

Harsh in the soft

darkness -

Warm in the cold

night. 

A..J. Ponder 

I keep on promising that I'll have cheerful poems.  And maybe one day I will :)  Like last week's "to the sea" I'm missing one of the poets that stood out at the Tuesday hub, Harvey McQueen .  Anyway the Tuesday Poem hub is dedicated to him this week.  "Reading Janet Frame" at the Tuesday Poem hub.  And his blog  stoatspring, is well worth reading as a "live memoir" of his poetry and his struggle with illness.