Sonnet - On the Inevitability of Daylight

Open your eyes and embrace the light Filling yourself with a vibrant strain. The cold dawn cometh—dissipating the night Into shredded segments with nothing gained. Emerging from a cave feeling half-crazed. That damning evidence in the cold light of the day Gripping with something you cannot embrace Some new inhibition has gotten in the way. And the horror is that this day has arrived As surely as tomorrow morning shall follow Tonight regardless of how you try to deny The truth that you can’t stand to swallow Today you may die. It is said with such certainty. But the real fear is that you may live an eternity.