The
Dark Day
Tonight was absolute
The flow strengthened as the
current grew
The waves of chance renewed
The night was marked
Pursued like a felon
But it was us who stole the
moon and the stars
We did not tuck in the night
No bedtime, no story time
Only empty pages waiting to
be filled
Unguided, we drove to see
the night
The wayward streets delved
deeper into me
Sealing evidence in the
chambers of memory
Though the night became
eternal
We sought the odysseys of
tomorrow
Like we had found the Tree
of Life and become immortal
The creatures of the night
embraced us curiously
And so we evolved and grew
feathers darker than the sky
Our hoo-ing and cooing echoed
a loud lullaby
We flew into the night
Reaching the heights of the
sleeping dreamers
Drinking from the Milky Way
to satiate our appetite
At night, we became one
Embraced by the shadows left
behind at daylight
Evident like the twinkles of
glitter spread across the eternal heavens
But the night grew tiresome
The cloak that had shielded
us too heavy to hold any longer
The moon punched out just as
the sun punched in
And so we shed our feathers
and retired to our cribs
The drafted book returned to
the shelf next to the many others who sat
Waiting for the night to come
Waiting for the night to come
