NIGHT
by JLC
Posted: Sunday, October 16, 2005 Word Count: 80 |
Now is the time.
Day departs.
And night begins his slow lumbering plod over earth.
I see him.
From far away,
His flowing robe trails a blanket of stars.
Ghostly children run under his cloak for asylum.
He soothes their scalps with frosty fingertips.
Haunting shadows follow him in a deathly pilgrimage.
The air is full of the moans of martyrs.
Tower of strength,
He takes my soul to a land of dreams.
And rests my head on his shoulder.
Day departs.
And night begins his slow lumbering plod over earth.
I see him.
From far away,
His flowing robe trails a blanket of stars.
Ghostly children run under his cloak for asylum.
He soothes their scalps with frosty fingertips.
Haunting shadows follow him in a deathly pilgrimage.
The air is full of the moans of martyrs.
Tower of strength,
He takes my soul to a land of dreams.
And rests my head on his shoulder.