Enlighten me

Enlighten me

There’s something wrong with the tube light.

It’s flickering on and off, on and off.

You might say that’s better than when it was off all the time

and I was crashing about in the dark and banging into things.

So much suffering.

Then it came on and everything was so obvious …

for some timeless moments …

before it went off again.

But there was a faint halo left

so I couldn’t forget its brilliance,

and I yearn for that light.

Other timeless moments have happened along the way.

Suddenly being in the light

and then the darkness closing round,

forgetting, almost.

Then it started this flickering business.

This strobing effect is really quite distracting.

It’s driving me mad.

Sometimes I feel drunk,

sometimes nauseous,

sometimes dizzy

with all this on again, off again

state of affairs.

But now I see there’s nothing wrong with the light.

It’s on all the time, but I can’t keep my eyes open.

Time to wake up darling. You’re dreaming.

© Tina Shettigara September 2018

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/06/detecting-consciousness-in-flickering-brain-signals/