Blinded By the Light

Playfully dancing around this strange light like a beacon it shines on this warm and dark night. Calling us close from our summer night flight as its beautiful radiance fills all of our sight and its hypnotic allure we are unable to fight. Mindlessly circling and not understanding of why, but endlessly around the strange light we all fly. Transfixed by its wonder and a need to get near but not daring to do so because it’s our death we all fear. But its pull is too strong on the weak minds and their will, this beautiful strange light that’s only purpose is to kill So after many of tries by the weak and unwise with a zap and a spark it takes their short lives a Moth and a Beetle even a few fireflies it saddens us all to hear their last painful cries. So cautiously we circle the light on the wall until the dawn finally comes and releases us all