Send Down The Dark

The Thirty-One Days of Poetry (Two Thousand and Thirteen Edition)

Day - the First

Send Down The Dark

I

Choice is a rabbit hole;

Fate is the nighttime desert sky.

One is labyrinth, dark, unknowable;

The other: vast calm, a sea of heaven’s light.

II

Send down the Dark

I am ready for silence

Long have I withered in celestial light

Cloak me and keep my heart

From more violence

I want no more shadow

But soft velvet night

III

Soft velvet night

Aflutter in the breeze

Tendrils of the darkness

Flow among the trees

Breathe in the air

And look upon the sky

This is what will happen

On the day you die

IV

Grant respite, gods of Light, lords of Darkness.

Be you foe or be you same.

I can no longer take the ceaseless struggle,

The unending back, and forth,

And back,

And forth,

Of a war waged -

To these eyes - pointless, piteous, even pretend.

I do not know the origin story of your conflict.

Nor - forgive the impudence - do I care.

The time for peace is at hand.

Come together.

Right now.

Over me.

Over everyone.

Beat swords into plowshares.

Turn Roy G. Biv to By Vigor.

Wash us all in shades of grey,

Night and day,

Now and forevermore.

V

Around the Sun

Our rabbit run

The race is done

The Darkness vast

Our tale is spun

A victor - none

The ending un-

‘Til Future past

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