God's Lightning

For me it didn’t quite happen that way…

it happened gradually at first

and then all at once,

but no brightness.

I woke and found out that someone had

cut a hole in my vision

where the world should have been, and

I know there’s nothing behind it --

because if there was I would have seen it.

I’ve heard of ghost pains, but I never thought

they’d happen to me.

When I sleep, I can sometimes

feel my eyesight itching-

so I reach for my pencil and

scratch at it with the tip,

trying to write on my brain

what the world used to look like.