• The silence of the night
    Comforts me like a mother, long departed
    Helps me battle solitude’s bitter bite
    The hold of darkness, only just started

    Night’s sweet lullaby
    Sends me to a blissful never-ending sleep
    Careful to keep me there till I die
    Its tangled webs hold me down deep

    It wraps around me, my defenses long gone
    My mind opens up to the only peace I’ve ever embraced
    Once, time long
    Ago; when my heart wasn’t locked in this unyielding space

    Pain was an unknown entity
    Remote and far away
    But how soon the time came, for it to flood into me
    Nothing no one could say

    Would ever ease this wound away
    So far from the light of the day
    Night was all I knew
    Nothing but the harsh dark blue

    The cold slips into me
    Numbing the pain
    My soul filled with empty glee
    Knowing the cost was worth the gain.