Moments Before Midnight

Silence; cutting at the breath, and stifling the heart

In moments passed, a shock courses through body and through mind

And motion sets in, falling faster eyes frozen in the sky

Twirling in final, fatal dance, a knife in hand behind

Eyes fixed upon the broken, gleaming in a hollow light

Still spinning off course into space, tumbling into roaring dark

Just watching flighty spirits sink unto the ground asunder

In mourning, grief wails in realizing the absence of the lark

Falling at last forever still, in place energy dying 

Adrenaline drains from an empty husk of the past one thousand years

Burns into mind, like broken glass embedded in bleeding heart

The perfervid burn of sorrow-tinged black bloodied, useless tears

A scream of rage and obsidian night pour into the voice

Racing in torrents in the blood to drown the sobbing heart

But still, shining illusion draws the golden blade to sunlight

In those moments before midnight the world was not torn apart

And held forever in glassy gaze that alien soft shell

How lifeless seems the once bright faces of the other world

Yet rivers refuse to stop ebbing and flowing tide of reality

And grey rain washes memories from weeping clouds now hurled

But soft music like soured wine still tinged in sweetest voice

The good so "oft entered" within the dusty brittle bones*

That once furnished the amber light shadowing frigid cold

And does away with memory that none now wish to own