Schizophrenic Night

Indeed, it is a lonely, insecure man consumed by the creeping night, but also the dark, conflicted world of the schizophrenic. For the title, I could not find a good synonym for schizophrenic, and I wanted the reader to understand the person in the poem was a schizophrenic, or a normal person having a schizophrenic experience. The black light is important, because it denotes a transition into a darker world (dark universe of schizophrenic mind and the drifting mind of normal person into the terrifying unknown). As you know a black light is invisible, but its unseen waves blip off of tangible matter (strobe effect). Thanks for your poignant review.

Black Light is essentially an ultraviolet light. It is mostly invisible, filtering out the visible waves of light. It is more of a manufactured form of light. It does flicker and emit a glow. In the poem, the black light flitters in the starstruck person's brain. It is filtered through the already hyper-sensitized brain. The invisible pulses of UV radiation shock his brain. He cannot then see the normal ebb and flow of the light waves in the celestial universe. His tortured senses alter the tangible matter. The incongruent dots and lines evolve into animated figures. The visible strains that are extant in the universe pair with the dark pulses in his head. The climax occurs when the tangible, visible waves pair with the darker, invisible waves.

Thanks magicdarer! I need to update my profile. I graduated from college with a BA in History. I went to graduate school for 2 years. I majored in History again. I took a lot of poetry and literature courses in graduate school. I taught high school for a couple of years. I am presently working as a Security Guard.

Good to make your acquaintance, Carl!