Children of the Night

The moon, fuller now
casts a ghostly glow
across the snowy landscape.

     wind whipped-
         ice cold-
         twenty below.

We are the children of the night;
     no food, no shelter, no home.

Sure to die within this wilderness
in which we roam.

Our bones beg for bread-
our flesh for golden warmth

Shuttering and shivering,
abandoning all hope.

We are the children of the night.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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May 25, 2019 at 3:28 AM
Impressive poem poet...Children, victims of lack of humanity of men... salute alkas
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