Palace of Night

By FallenSky

Under ebon stars, I’m weeping
For my love.
Her portrait of light,
So telling of her ghostly grace,
Beckons me towards distant shores
Across a lonely sea

Under the moon I lay
As I’m searching
For a memory that evades me
Like a cloud.
I’m washed away by a sad song
Dying in the wind

Neath fallen embers of a nighttime sky
I am traveling an endless sea
Alone.
The tragedy of time itself
Is more profound than these thousand nights
Cascading before me

I’ve heard the mists of mourning
Whisper my name
Entwined with reverent words,
Outlined in myriad dialects
In the aesthetic halls of future’s bane.
Though perhaps I have been deaf,
I can still hear them echo.

Amongst a choir of wolves
Evensong reigns
And the silent anthem of sorrow
Is braided with their song of night,
Its chorus resounding in the shadows
Until it’s washed away

Wrapped in robes of dusk, I’m waiting
For my morningrise
To replace my sweat with dew,
And for a passion-scented blossom
To show me its innocent truth
For I fear I have forgotten

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Copyright 2003 CrestFallenSky
Published on Sunday, May 4, 2003.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • manywalks On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, manywalks (747)By person wrote:

    What can I say that hasn't already been said, classic beauty indeed my dear. ~ mw

  • CharlottesWeb On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, CharlottesWeb (509)By person wrote:

    Dark mornings walking the coast line...amazing...haunting, mourning and a bit mystic....beautiful...~DW~

  • A former member wrote: This poem was so real i could taste it...very deep writing here. And to bear your soul so openly yet still in disguise is truely a talent

  • DoctorAsh On Monday, May 5, 2003, DoctorAsh (371)By person wrote:

    Wow .. like shadow said, "Now thats poetry" . This has a familiar smell . Classicly beautiful

  • A former member wrote: A pure, beautiful piece!! I love this one.

  • shadowsinthelight On Sunday, May 4, 2003, shadowsinthelight (146)By person wrote:

    Now that is poetry. Sometimes I think you were born in the wrong century. Excellent, S.

  • maddin foxxxy On Sunday, May 4, 2003, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    i can't believe i hadn't read ur work...this is a pure form of art and a beautiful one...keep up the talent!

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