Incidental Iridescence

In the night of gathering conformity
when everyone draws a shade
over what they refuse to see,
the incidental iridescence
of the questioning mind
shines like a light that glows
by a pure flame in understanding
amid the ignorance.

It is so bright
because there is only blackness around,
which has a brilliance so obvious
and hard to deny
though it reminds
not all that is visible,
genuinely representing the truth.

Still those little gnats of luminescence
are treated as insects,
annoyances to the calm,
even if it is inside a shroud
intended to smother independence.

But insight is a natural incandescence
can’t be extinguished by pretending
that it doesn’t exists.

Though some try
by closing their eyes
just content to be blind
than discover what thrives
so completely alive
amid the dark veil of life
who always manage to fly.