“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”

“My eyelids felt like had tiny but chubby sleep faeries hanging on the lashes and pulling them closed”

“And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”

“There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.”

“The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.”

“There is an entire world that exists in my mind. All I do is close my eyes and watch.”