Close your eyes, baby, <br />filter out the Darkness, <br />and you can still see the <br />world through the sunlit <br />flickers of your lashes. <br />You can still look. <br /> <br />Cover your ears, baby, <br />silence all the Temptations, <br />and you can still hear the <br />laughter through muffled <br />tight star-fingers. <br />You can still listen. <br /> <br />Just lay low, baby; stay <br />rosy-pink and happy. <br />Just don't open up to <br />them, baby, and Hear and <br />See, keep it all in, baby, lest <br />the Cradle will snap.<br /><br />Ballerina With Fins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/filtering-darkness/