I drive home from night shift <br />In late summer's heat <br />Into daybreak like crystal <br />Shattering in my eyes. <br />Sun glare flashes <br />Off of glass-fronted buildings <br />And windshields of approaching cars. <br />I squint from pain and blinding sun rays. <br />Stopping at traffic lights, <br />I briefly close my eyes <br />From the stabbing sunlight <br />And the skyscrapers' mirror of it, <br />Still seeing the vision's negative <br />Burnt behind eyelids, <br />Like stars, studded in spinning galaxies <br />Spiraling outward, <br />Drag their shadows - <br />Dark nebulae pocked with black holes. <br />Now my damaged nerves see <br />A billion days break <br />Like crystal.<br /><br />Lillian Susan Thomas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/day-breaks-like-crystal/
