Dancer in the Dark

you.
rippling, fluid grace
a dance of shadows;
evanescent nights spent gazing
at ephemeral stars --
far beyond your grasp --
and wishing upon a
perpetual twilight
you are ink and shadows,
converging lines and contoured edges
a chiaroscuro of waning moonlight
chase your demons away
and keep your skeletons
under lock and key --
they'll haunt your dreams tonight
we are all hiding --
not from the dark,
but from what's in it
forlorn dreams and cast-away hopes,
sinking under a sea of forgetting --
we all have things to hide
heavy footfalls, dense under the weight
of oppressing gravity
you've forgotten how to fly,
haven't you?
you used to be so light,
borne upon silver wings
you've shed them now
Category:Poetry
Category:~Angel Wings~