Filtering Darkness Poem by Ballerina With Fins

Close your eyes, baby,
filter out the Darkness,
and you can still see the
world through the sunlit
flickers of your lashes.
You can still look.

Cover your ears, baby,
silence all the Temptations,
and you can still hear the
laughter through muffled
tight star-fingers.
You can still listen.

Just lay low, baby; stay
rosy-pink and happy.
Just don't open up to
them, baby, and Hear and
See, keep it all in, baby, lest
the Cradle will snap.