Essence of night
The essence of night
is her infinite darkness,
that cannot be measured
by space or in time.
She’s as large or as small
as one cares to imagine.
She’s all that’s ever been
or, She is nothing at all.
To examine the queen of the night
and learn of her dark secrets;
She must be approached
with advantage of light.
But whenever one dares
to surprise her as such,
she instantly pops out of sight.
She must certainly then
be endowed with black magic,
or possessed of a spirit or two.
It’s beyond rhyme or reason
She performs this illusion.
She’s as broad and as high
as the vast midnight sky;
then, poof!
She’s swallowed by light.
(2014)
