And the switch is flipped off

even after the switch is flipped there is just a fragment of time when a lightbulb will hum and shine and light will dance on the wires.

and there is still a moment after there is a stillness in breath and beat when glimmering, scared eyes still see.

But maybe those eyes never stop seeing, and they watch as everything fades away from them. And they don't stop seeing in the blackness, the blackness is simply what they see.

That is, before the light.

Because any switch is a flipped switch, a light that is turned off is off by choice, and is still there.

And eyes do see the nothing that is something there, until the current dances away from the wires, and the lights that are flicked off can see that when they are on they dull the world around them.

And the switch flicks, and the world is brighter than before.