John Tansey Poet Free verse

I Like the Darkness About You

I Love the Darkness about you 

 

Darkness surrounds you 

As spirals of smoke 

Wrapping you in myth 

And the delineated danger 

Of the world, 

But your proud defiance 

Breaks through with gestures 

And chiseled features 

To dally with the heavy air 

And tilting your face 

Out of shadow into light 

You flirt with a foreboding 

A Newport in your hand 

And whisper in a trepid voice 

Aware of your mortality. 

Such a crumbling beauty 

Leaning forward in a skirt 

Wisps of black hair shading your eyes 

Your sexuality is in your frailty 

You are as the motherly moon

Scared but proud

To hold up a starless sky

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