There's No Such Thing as Darkness

First week of poetry month! Yay!


There's no such thing as darkness,
really, just a stubborn insistence
on ignoring the vast majority of
light in the universe.
There are no dark places anywhere
just places we're not equipped to see
and even what we think we see
have more and more dimensions of light
(which our eyes can't see at present, of course,
but even now we're getting there - imperfect but audacious
scanners and lenses and metal eyes)
and not a deepest abyss of Earth there is
that isn't lighted.
So please, no more of this nonsense about
"the dark and empty reaches of space" -
Ha! - as if
those weren't the fullest
and brightest places of all.