Kiss Me In the Shadows

Keep well away from dark, forbidding dreams -- Instead, stay near the hearth and play your lyre; Sleep even so will wait on wooden beams, Seducing you beside your cozy fire. Meticulous and careful you may be, Evicting darting shadows with the blaze -- Inside your quiet cottage, patiently, Night's emissary holds you in her gaze. The cuckoo calls as midnight church-bells chime; His warning message echoes from the walls -- Enchanted ears have lost all track of time, So far from whispered fears as silence falls. Her chilling hands then rip away your voice, And images assail your inner eyes -- Denying you the act of conscious choice, On captive lips she mixes truth and lies. When sunlight climbs the sky and breaks her spell, She blows a darkened kiss, and bids farewell.