Slowly the gathering dusk fills each hall
As shades of eventide begin night’s call
The darkness moves forward to welcome night
As heavy shadows cower every light.
There’s a sound in the passage you can hear
The echo of shuffles seeming so clear
With a cumbersome yawn, fall into bed
And pull all your covers over your head !
My heart is heavy, laden down
As my whole world is turned around
My face is veiled and hidden by
Shadows of tears I cannot cry.
The silence of the night is there
To masque the cloak of fear I wear
Oh blessed Lord make my way light
Please help me get through one more night !
Some days the sun plays peek-a-boo with me
In and out, house to house, or tree to tree
Just when I think the sun is here to stay
How odd, that’s when it seems to slip away
Or hides behind a patch of clouds up high
Like some huge colony there in the sky.
I wonder how the clouds so quickly glide
And what I’d see if I could be inside
There are so many questions left to ask
It has become a never ending task !
The candle burns, its flame is bright
Lord help us to survive the night
It is no matter what we know
Or where it is that we shall go
Perhaps we’ll never meet again
Or share once more remember when !
The shadows drift down through the trees
And shimmer in the gentle breeze
The dried leaves crackle underfoot
The chimney’s belching smoke and soot
The nightfall moves in like a cat
With moments ripe to have a chat.
A chill is in the air it seems
Soon time for reverie and dreams
The quiet shifts into the past
I think the day now breathes its last !
The day grows short as twilight nears
Increasing all impending fears
The darkness moves in closer now
Casting its shadow cross the brow
Welcome to night time one and all
We’re making ready for the call
That detours each along the way
Before our lives just melt away !
Does man get lost in hopes that are not fair
While ever wanting to seek paradise,
As trees lift up their arms to God in prayer
Are men then left alone to their device ?
Life has a vast divide existing there
To reach in darkness feeling no alarm
For man’s oft judged by trappings he may wear
And so has learnt how to evade this harm ?
But still in God’s lost idyllic garden
Where fragrant roses will forever bloom
Lie shadows of those soon forgotten
Not unlike whispers in a silent room !
Another morning has begun
Tis grand to feel the warming sun
Its fingers slipping through the blind
Leaving the dark of night behind.
The lacy patterns on the wall
Keep spreading till they reach the hall
I can no longer laze away
Its time to rise and greet the day !
The terror of the night draws near
Keep still my heart it may not hear
A drama that each life endured
While hour to hour we are inured.
The smallest sound becomes a threat
We have not found our solace yet
Elusive peace where have you gone
Into the land that lies beyond ?
Say can you tell me what is there
Or will you guess how I shall fare
It matters not for who can know
What lies beyond each new shadow ?
The trees are bare their limbs are shorn
The clouds above seem quite forlorn
They slowly drift across the sky
This panoramic view on high !
The chilly air pervades it all
An early night begins to fall
The moon it rises on the wane
Too soon it will be full again !
The shadows length becomes surreal
Encompassing each snowy field
While we take flight into our dreams
Of perfect days and happy schemes !
The shadows dark do cloud my mind
And as a serpent slowly wind
Into a river rife with fear
Where floats one vision most unclear,
Too strange that as I wend my way
My feet seem slow and mired in clay.
From dusk till dawn these shadows keep
My restless self foreign to sleep,
Then with the wakeful hours of morn
My eyelids shut in careless scorn
Upon this world which might just be
A lesson in civility.
The swiftly graying darkly coursing sky
Does play upon my fickle inner eye
And bares a mystery both stark and bold
That speaks to me of long lost dreams untold.
These dreams I thought had flown so far away.
Yet seeming near, had somehow lost their way.
Some fringed and faded shadows left behind
Shedding aged reflection as they unwind
What had once been I recognised anew
And purpose wrought with aim and course so true.
The passion in my heart that won’t decline
A hungry yearning that I can’t define
The dreaming in my mind that cannot fade
A hard decision that I have not made
The longing in my soul that will not wane
A quest for meaning that I’ve failed to gain.
And there among the past that wastes away
Find sad remains of yet another day
One unknown force that placed the founding stone
Has willed this legacy to us alone.
There in the night with truth possessed and sown
Who by their fruits at last shall they be known.
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Claire V. Bogdanos 