Oh darkness,
how can I ask you
to rock me to sleep this night?
The pain is too great
to simply fall asleep.

Oh darkness,
what will happen when I wake up?
Where will I be?
Who will I know?
Will love be as elusive
as it was before I slipped
beneath your smoky surface?

Oh darkness,
how will you greet me
on the other side?
All of my life I feared you
and as the sunset draws near
I see a reflection of myself,
and everything the light
never offered.

Oh darkness,
who knew you could hold such beauty
as I stare into the single piercing eye
of the waxing moon;
my back pressed upon the cold earth
as the scents of blood and roses
drift
       upwards
                       upon
                              my
                                  dying

Breath.