Exhortation To the Night: a Halloween Poem
Exhortation to the Night
What breaths fill this night?
Exhaled by things that shun the touch of light?
Accept the burden of pressing dark?
Face the Abyss to read its Mark?
Down in the blackness
We dance and drum,
Exhorting the Unknown
To Manifest and come.
We wheel through the Void
Between the stars
Accepting its taint and all it mars.
We the believers in Divine Disorder,
The ones who prowl on reality's border
We bearers of an Alternate Truth:
The universe was different in its youth.
Back when the stars had just begun to burn,
The Watchers formed and began to learn
The evil secrets locked in space,
The musings of gods that have no face.
Enrobed in darkness
We writhe and turn
Wanting to know
Fearing to learn
The awful truths
That bend the mind
That separate us from our kind.
Ours the breaths that chill the night.
Ours the eyes that shun the light.
We accept the mantle of the dark.
We behold the Abyss and feel its mark.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2019
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