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