Thank you to my cousin, Ben Wain, and to Marianne Arnot for naming this poem I wrote at our writers’ workshop!
Hikokomori
The light plays
I play with light
light envelops us all
and ensnares us
I hide
in the lush velvet curtains
of the mind
I get lost in my bed
Here in the emptiness
Light cannot get to me.
(c) Becky Deans 2014
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