{ chasing the fireflies about my mind still waiting for my miracle to end both eyes on the sky with silence all around silence from within bubbling skin swelling with each breath i hear the distant cry of that small voice coming closer ever closer i can never touch it even when it is so near so close to emerald glow from the firefly in the night's eye casting pale shadows on the dew-sprayed ground angry vertigo in full glory stutter once more and again green to red outside in a dimly lit world looking in the dingy windows to the invisible crimes hidden inside malevolent dysfunctional state of servitude still pursuing a faint glow }