Perennial Night

It dawned for me, finally-

The day.

But what are you doing still, out west?

I look hard- it is you

Camouflaged in cloud colours,

My reminder of the night before.

I cannot be with you still!

The white on you is translucent,

I can hear your luminous voice fade;

At the brink of my eye

Rises the elegy of our broken temptation.

Go away, now!

It is time for me to be charred

By the brightest gold of day,

It has risen to dispel you- be gone!

I must now seize the day.

You rise and you leave-

With hurt pride, with hidden fears,

With indignation-

Like the last strand of a dream.

But you remain in the recesses of my heart

For me to visit all day.

Lone Marauder of Perennial Night,

You know it is time for you to leave.

Little by little, you disappear each night,

Leaving me in darkness.

Only to return fully

To haunt the-