You turned into someone else's block. Darkness shorted the street lamp out, and it, throwing crackle around,
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You turned into someone else's block.
Darkness shorted the street lamp out,
and it, throwing crackle around,
was going mad from solitude.
You realised you'd got well and truly lost,
and that you ought to head back.
But the lamp shouted after you
desperately —
it was ready to crack up:
where there's no Sun —
Run! Darkness is good
only then,
when you know
that the light will come back!
The light left this place
three hundred years ago,
on that very day
the Sun went out,
choked on something?
And onto the kerbs made of fences
marched
the parade of eternal darkness,
and the sky with a black film
was covered over.
No pushing through,
no getting past — forward,
over-above,
your movements
were all at random…
You slipped,
flew,
You understood: here it is, hell,
but you woke up in time all the same.