Engulf me

It was a flicker in the darkness.

That was all.

As I lay cold and unfeeling,

the perpetual inkiness kept itself

closed tightly around me.

I hung on though.

Waiting to see it again.

Hoping.

There it was! Shining bright and

then gone. Vanished.

But the halo of its memory

remained. Burnt into my vision.

Slowly, I crawled towards its ghost and waited.

The flicker came again. This time I was

ready to be engulfed.