Nocturnal Shadows

Pitch dark nights

filled with endless cries

Massive smog curtains

cover puffy soot eyes.

Moon snarls

like a demon of night

nocturnal shadow realm

cemetery of stars.

Translucent gauze

covers mystic skies.

I hide from myself

can’t see my shadows

spectral spirits hover

imprisoning me

by looming threat,

moon illuminated

by malignance.

Even my dreams

have murky colors

nightmares of doom.

But I am not alone

in the blackest of nights

in just a few hours

I’ll see mo(u)rning.