NIGHT SONG

Night with its velvety fingers
covers our eyes
with its sooty touch
and we curl ourselves
into a ball of breathing dust
the size of a child's clenched fist

in my sleep
I sing you a star
a distant star shimmering
among the inky depths
and it whispers my song to your ears
luring your dreams into my arms

asleep my heart
a patch of blood
splashed against the night
comes beating at your breasts
announcing the birth of another star

—John Digby

 

Copyright © Adel Gorgy 2013 Photograph  Cosmic Dance ... Traces of Pollock
Cross-Cultural Communications Art & Poetry Series Broadsides # 69