free verse – The Light is On

We’ll Be Back

In another life with glasses raised and fire in our throats to keep us warm through the night...

After falling, breaking bones against the ground, the sky torn away replaced with flesh and blood, we laughed and laughed...

Tensed for a blow that may never fall, my back to the night and waiting...

They were handing out pieces of the apocalypse today...

A glimmer out of nothing, shadows set in shadows come alive...

There might have been a path here once, but probably not...

Out there they said some things could be remembered...

Signed, with love, an enemy...

That was me, stumbling blind in darkness like no other darkness...

There for a moment dead and gone, passing by, then into the crowd, obscurity...

Awake and dreaming here where daylight fades...

Searching in the fray for the story’s end, last of the leatherbound secrets burned alongside the remnants of Empire...

gather handfuls to carry on out into dry lands along a trail of candles...

Scythes in the field at harvest, sweet with rain fallen down down down...

Death crowns me under a night with no moon...