The maiden midnight

This is the product of the fear I feel when I am alone at midnight.

Maiden midnight

As the eyes of midnight twinkled in the sky

and her arms embraced the land

a great billowing steam rose off of her skin

and surrounded the traveling man

sweet broken promises echoed throughout

that the man had no choice but to hear

though when screams of the past kissed his mind

he surrendered and covered his ears

but it wasn't the screams or the whispers

nor the eerie fog that held him within

he was bond of the midnight who gripped him

and threw to his feet his friends and his kin

she had snuck through the crack in the window

the wicked black velveted crow,

and she took from her bed the one he had wed

for reasons a traveler never would know

midnight then knocked on the door again

soon after the grieving was done

she swept into her arms the child of a poor man

his pride and his joy, his son

then she turned her back on his shelter

she promised to leave him alone

but the traveling man was not satisfied

he knew he could never go home

so he challenged the sad mistress midnight

he swore on his family’s grave

he tested the very destruction he felt

o he swore on his family’s grave

-Gracious

Reviews

[Princess Poetry]

This is like a parallel universe here. Midnight meets a man before the man can meet midnight. I like it!

[Gracious]

Thank so much! I'm really glad that you interpreted it this way

[Princess Poetry]

:) You're so welcome! I love poems with hidden meanings and this one is a landmark.

[RachelRedstone]

it doesn't really make any sense, in my opinion. maybe you should give a little something about what was happening and what had happened...

[Gracious]

could you elaborate on that opinion?

[RachelRedstone]

for instance, who is the main person? the man or the woman?

[Gracious]

Well, the story is about a man who is tormented by midnight who has been personified as a malevolent killer who keeps returning to torture the same man even more. This midnight character is also somewhat synonymous with death itself.

[RachelRedstone]

Oh! that makes so much more sense now! Thanks!

[Gracious]

no Problem! :)