Blink

Title: Blink
Medium: Oil pastels + Markers

Blink...
I've stood in the darkness
I've looked at the lights
Staring at me
as i stare them back.

A glow of bursting color,
a sparkle of light...
shining like an angel
who promises me flight.

I see them now,
I've seen them before.
tempting me
as i tempt them back.

They burn like hope
in a pit dark black.
Spreading out to nothing
as I hold me back.

They burn even brighter
as i watch them blind.
I can burn them on,
I can burn them out.

For they burn not outside
but within myself.
Temptation of a moment,
burnt in a blink.
The lights of a lifetime,
in the blink of an eye.

Temptation is but a blink of light
in the darkness within.
- Pushkaraj Shirke