When Instinct Awakes: After The Lights Poem by Joshua Legister

This poem forms part of a larger psychological project titled When Instinct Awakes. Other pieces from the same world appear across different platforms sometimes as poems, sometimes as fragments, sometimes as visual work. Each stands alone, but together they trace the same questions: awareness, control, and what changes once instinct is no longer ignored. There is no required order. If something resonates, follow it. Some truths reveal themselves only when encountered more than once.