Embraced Darkness
Sounds of whispered blackened ruins
Your voice—soft—in sketches
Tracing once the rim of light
Now leers—empty darkness
Full faces hazed by dreaming eyes
Catch glimpses—only shadows
My enemy must be the Night
I wait—she brings her gallows
Embracing me by fear and strength
Her hours hold and tease me
The way I feel I fall in dreams
Circling, spinning, catch me!
Visions only stay a while
The morning sun erasing
Rescuing my betrayed soul
Slow tears—remember me
Remembering the things that were
The Night—she will be back
Torturing me again until
I run from her attack
But when she dances with her skirt
Twirling, graceful spinning
I fall to her—I lose my heart
Love forever winning
- Jude Stringfellow, 1981
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