Longer Night

Darkness has bewitched light
To ride in the wheels of doom,
Fight blind it core sights.

Gripped progressions like tight brooms.

Rays of hope sunk in distrust,
Our wages rust
For years in longer nights.
Why other years of the nights?

For a second becomes longer than an hour,
Sights blurred for faint morrow;
Perpetual resolutions turn sour 
On the dreams of better morrow.
Awestricken on the slow walk of
The millipedes and centipedes,
Lost if they'll paddle us to dawn;
The day we never cease to dream.

Wake you daggers of revenge!
To sieve the timeless nights
On the bed of progressive lights.
Fight the dreaded nights
Let the day break now
While we're one and our souls alive.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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March 18, 2022 at 12:41 AM
Thanks for sharing this. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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