The Mag 187 - Elusive Bliss

elusive bliss

you cling to light

chase dappled sunbeams

round mottled tree trunks

over rustling goldenrod

toward western sun down -

then flee to the porch light

flutter wings and limbs

tap relentlessly against the pane

beat the back door’s swing

to rush headlong for the lamp

this light pulls you in

exhausts you as you come close

feeling deadly heat until

a mirror’s reflection distracts

it’s then that you stop

flitting close to the glass

seeing the mindless quest

for what it is and settling

harried and bedraggled

as the light is turned off

rest here in the dark

let body and soul still themselves

until the moonlight wakes

another urge to curl and fan

your wings anew 

shared with others at The Mag 187 - Magpie Tales

Image Credit - 'The Moth and the Lamp' - Cesar Santos