Incidental Iridescence

 

In the night of gathering conformity

when everyone draws a shade

over what they refuse to see,

the incidental iridescence

of the questioning mind

shines like a light that glows

by a pure flame in understanding

amid the ignorance.

 

It is so bright

because there is only blackness around,

which has a brilliance so obvious

and hard to deny

though it reminds

not all that is visible,

genuinely representing the truth.

 

Still those little gnats of luminescence

are treated as insects,

annoyances to the calm,

even if it is inside a shroud

intended to smother independence.

 

But insight is a natural incandescence

can’t be extinguished by pretending

that it doesn’t exists.

 

Though some try

by closing their eyes

just content to be blind

than discover what thrives

so completely alive

amid the dark veil of life

who always manage to fly.