In the Night

Underneath a sunless sky Blue grey colors in my mind A heart alone to keep the time Bundled snugly to rune and rhyme In the darkness and the silence of the night Not a sound or break or sign Narcotic sleep so deep so kind In the nothing moves the jive Outside in the backyard pyre In the darkness and the silence of the night In this fitful wake less dream Want to warn and shout and scream Macabre figures dance in a scene Ghostly twilight amongst the weeds In the darkness and the silence of the night Outside my bedroom window sill Out in the nothing of darkness shrill Ghastly figures roam at will Horror grips and holds and kills In the darkness and the silence of the night If the moon will surely show And stop the paralysis and let me moan Shed some light on phantoms bowed Glowing eyes and shrouds and stones In the darkness and the silence of the night Morning in our neighborhood Kiss of dew and smell of wood If they knew or surely could Before the next near moon In the darkness and the silence of the night