Encased in Shadow

I reached to the stars

and tried to feel their light.

My hands fell through the sky,

brushing radiant blue shadows.

Darkness caressed my skin

in cool, forbidden kisses.

Slowly, I began to lose myself.

 

Before the light,

I reached towards it

with bright hope.

Darkness whispered,

beckoned,

and I heeded its call.

The master of night

wrapped me in his arms,

trapping me inside myself.

He encased me in shadow

so I wouldn’t escape.

 

Still, I long for the light

I had seen before.

I cried out,

screaming at the darkness

to free me.

Fighting, battling,

my body refused to move.

How could a tasteless shadow

capture me so easily?

Swiftly, I began to sink

into oblivion.

 

Behind the light

and under the moon,

I lingered to taste its delicate sweetness sprinkling

onto lesser beings.

Like snow, falling,

finding

home somewhere else.

Encased in shadow,

I wept for lost light.

 

The night master embraced me possessively.

He whispered dark desires

against my neck.

Erupting, volatile lust crawled

over my body and spun

webs of deceit from

its scarlet abdomen.

Giving in, I met his lips

in a bittersweet kiss

that tasted of the darkest chocolate.

Black bile, poison, roared down

my throat and made me his.

 

After the light,

glassy hope shattered

and scattered across the universe.

My body floated in

the dark dust of stars,

the Lady of Shallot coasting down

the eternal river of the cosmos.

Encased in shadow,

I was no more.

Author's Note

Inspired by Olivia Lufkin's song "Starless Night." This is the desire that, if allowed to roam free, will consume an entire being until its destruction.

Reviews

[VelvetRosetta]

Dark...it is easy to fall pray ro the darkness of night, the one that roams day and night, looking to rob of us eternal light...
Wonderful deep and dark...look for the light even in your darkest of hours!
Keep them coming!

[nonno noo]

There are some awesome images in your poetry. Well done.