The night falls
heavy in its hours.
Afraid of the dark
Corners,
of your mind.
Fear what you may find
alone,
in the space between you-
and vast nothing.
Openly suffocating,
in periwinkle dusk
rapt in a blanket of night.
You fall asleep-
You fell in love-
I fell for it-
Burglars in the eerie in-between
steal abandoned hearts
and crawl with malice.
Lovers steal
glances and tears
that fall
guilty like night.
In hazy dark cities,
lights blur through salty tears.
Among busy streets
wander empty years
sound of safe, shhh-
alee-whispering wind,
silence is golden.
For in memories and sunsets,
cast behind you,
lingering in the shadows,
of loneliness-
loudest
at the fall of night.
Image credit: By Jon Sullivan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
