lockdown

in theory

there is light

some have called it

golden or warm

you might wonder

why i have not seen it

which is a natural

question to ask

so let’s say

i live in a home

and the walls are

so black and thick

i find myself isolated

thus filling with ache

and let’s say this ache

is quite monster-like

spawning long tentacles

that entomb

my body like a mummy

cloaked in darkest night

*Published in The Ekphrastic Review’s Guillermo Wiedemann’s Writing Challenge on 4/24/20