Darkness For Now

Starbursts and fireflies
Softly singing lullabies
Bringing unto gods and men
Shades of love from the poet's pen
Watching over your tired brow
Lulling you into sleep for now

Until you must awaken, stay
Until we meet some other way
Now the dim and shadows keep
Careful vigil of your sleep
For the night is a blessing, nothing more
A blanket of peace for men of war

Lover's sin and lover's plight
A cloak of dark for lover's flight
In the heavens, sinewy threads of dew lay
Sleeping sound, awaiting dawn, awaiting day
But why can we not stifle the morn?
Why do we reside in a world of dark and light torn?

Darkness, now you see
Is a new reality
Escape into its protective breast
Where you'll be forever safe to rest
Smiling tears of dim eyes fall
Tasting sweeter than honey, bitter as gall

Stay but a moment more
Listen sound to the shadow's lore
The last things that you shall hear
Before the dawn awakens your fear
So remember this, our slumber, our golden sleep
For the dim, your heart it shall keep

Open a solemn eye
Whisper soft the lullaby
Remember little of your sleep?
Recall little of your siesta deep?
The darkness is where I shall stay
Until we meet some other way