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Midnight Mistress

I hear my midnight mistress

Screaming in the night.

It shakes the leave, the grass

The trees.

It echos off the stars it seems.

They twinkle in a shutter

Shed a tear for a broken heart

A whaling heard along the wind,

There goes my midnight mistress

Stinging at my eyes

The tears come.

I am not supposed to walk this road.

Or hear the crying night.

I do not want to think these thoughts,

The tears roll down my cheeks.

"I am sorry my love"

"My cradle of life. You do not sting my eyes so."

"You do not weak my knees"

It is only me, on this walk.

The trees shaking int he night.

The witching hour brings celebration

The dancing of the trees

The transcendental chanting,

Of my mind, and yours.

And the screaming of my midnight mistress, carried across the wind.

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Published
Apr 25, 2010
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