Life Raft in Amber

When brother was fading away black chimes signaled for the demons to play They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind Treating the heart like an orphaned marble They were rabid and had brackish intention hope chipped away like crowbar on cement. In a dream one of them took me into its sky I clung tight to its undercarriage begging for it to release me It promised that it would if I said that I loved it...I relented It didn't keep its promise as expected. I coddled a little amber cross.... (a field mouse in an owl's greying claw). I was dismissed into a pillow of tranquility The demons slowly drifting away... as did my brother the very next day.