Poem--Endless Night…

Silence—
Haunts my empty hours of longing
With nameless phantoms of possibilities
And formless specters of Calamity;
Taunts my defensive Faith
With laughter at its persistence,
Mocking its supreme Folly…


Imagination—
Plays with my overwrought senses,
Feeds me on wishful day-dreams
That make Reality cruelly unbearable;
And then allies with the Silence
Casting me in tragic roles,
Enacting my worst nightmares …

Faith—
That the love I know cannot fail…
That your steadfast eyes can never lie;
That the morrow will bring a sign, a word
To shatter the brittle, heavy silence—
To annihilate the demons of Fear;
To breathe Love into the suffocating Emptiness…

The War—
A series of battles, by Day and night…
Some won, some lost—its fortunes prey
To the whims of fickle Fantasy…
Before tears dry into frozen numbness—
Before Despair is crowned upon Hope’s Throne
Wont you come?