I run into the jeweled blue night
Offering myself to you, the magnificent moonlight
A thousand stars beckon my soul
For we are one less and incomplete
As I say to them “forgive me.”
I am unworthy
You are the light that blinds
But there is joy in your absolute purity
I will be the sacrifice
To all before the black sea
Take me, swallow me whole
Let me drown in your liquid darkness
The nocturnal eyes see my sins
And wrap me in the silence
I have nudged the edge of reason
It is not what I thought
The scream fills my throat
Washed is the deafening howl
Caged in the want and desire of what eludes me
Colors of pink and orange rise to reveal a drowsy new glory
A new day, a clean brush to paint these old worries
I attempt to hang on as I slip through the crevices of sanity
I was loved but not for myself
The specter of paradise flutters freely about but the night calls my spirit
I answer…..breath……silence.
Submission Name: Ran
