Invisible blessing Poem, by Nathan Lafata, at My poetic side

Serene at best

Disorienting at worst

Catalyst of paranoia

That dwells in the shadows we forge

In the depths of our insecurities

Oh you masker of light

Devoid of all wavelengths

Who adds the contrast

That brings vitality to paintings

And relieves the sun after a hard day's work

You who encompasses the cosmos

And enable the stars to show their brilliance

You who have the uncanny ability

To both induce sleep and engage curiosity

How we have misunderstood you

Conditioned by ghost stories, horror films,

And the screeds of fundamentalists and frauds

That all prey on our innate childish fears

We forget about your virtue

Choosing instead to project our unease onto you

All the while changing your innocent name

A mere descriptor for the absence of color

Into a synonym for evil

We seem to forget that you're a blessing

You give us relief from the otherwise

Ceaseless deluge of UV rays and blue light

You give us balance in our most transcendent art

And pause from the neurotic frenzied buzz

That permeates our ever blinding and blinded society

You give us a chance to sleep

A chance to explore

A chance to conquer fears

A chance to meditate

And we reward you by stigmatizing your name,

Sprinting past unlit street corners in a safe neighborhood,

Breeding a plethora of delusional cliches

That are all related to you,

And constructing millions of gargantuan light displays

That diminish your natural beauty

Ignoring how you hold all the stars

Suspended in your endless arms

We still partially blame you

For crimes that we commit

Which happen to take place

At a time when you dominate the sky

When people can take advantage

Of your mysterious and inconspicuous nature

You are not to blame

For the ills of the world

That humanity has projected onto you

You could never be to blame

Because while we are always fretting

You are content with simply being

So, masker of light,

I pay my respects to you

Let your peaceful absence shine

Author: Nathan Lafata ( Online)
Published: March 3rd, 2026 22:59
Category: Unclassified
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