creepy night river awake like a fever as fireflies glow in furtive morse code the eerie evening commands silence in the hollow empty spaces yielded in sonorous silences by a yawning dearth of everything that's sacred, pure and sweet once there was raw laughter and joy here and weavers wove rich tales of fat worms for their pampered nestlings afloat on air once there was life and presence here but now small spaces abound in this vast absence of sunshine smiles and catwalk swinging now it's plovers, owls and night jars galore as their apocalyptic cries smite the night like a plague in New Canaan where glory is never too far away from the surface gloss of a loveliness kidnapped by the salacious gods of lewd desires and morbid libidos alive in tales that are forever testifying to the loud presence of envious divinities on a free ride upon our egos everything is gone now but the thunderous silence and the smiles that lit up our days are now but a memory of wan looks and faded joys clad in the hollow feelings of pain and that's all that ever remains when our futile antics are done