As the sun lowers herself in her bed,
Painting the sky molten and fiery red,
With streaks across cerulean expanse,
An adornment of youthful romance.

Clouds sail adrift in their graceful retreat,
Passing her canvas—a billowing sheet—
And, catching her rays, they hold them with care,
To offer them up like an evening prayer.

Yet, as the moon stirs, he might shed a tear
For the slumbering solar chandelier,
His pale glow pulsing with longing to feel
The dreams where their light and love can be real.

But when dawn creeps near to rouse her from sleep,
And illumines the darkness o’er the sweep,
The moon returns to his lunar chamber,
Bound as her distant yet constant admirer.
©️2025 David Cornetta

Your love burns with flame,
your touch warms even the coldest of hearts,
yet you walk alone.

You dance with the wind,
and mountains know when you walk,
you leave a trail, with silence you talk.

You weave the dreams
and stitch the time
you're what a rhythm is to a rhyme.

In your eyes secrets no one knows,
no one even dares to ask.

Yet you never hide and you never run.
You wake up with the moon and sleep with the sun.

You just are - in a way no one ever was.

Oh, April, you have taught me how to live again.
I’ve watched the magnolia tree outside my room
Slowly blossom in your presence
The heat of the sun
Like fireflies on my skin
Lighting up the day

Oh, April, you have taught me to love again
I’ve made a new friend
I have something to live for again
Something to love for
Though I’m young
Though we aren’t far apart in age
I want to protect him
Like a son
My son

Oh, April, I fear I had forgotten the delight of your presence
Raindrops flowering on the ground
Flowers raining down on me
I can love again; my heart has thawed
What am I, if not alive?

The sun in the sky is so bright
And my flowers smile
In the morning sunlight and
It chases away all the dark night
With beams that it sends
To make all amends and
The sun is eternal in the boundless sky.

The dark has come
Take heed this charge
As we stand our ground
The sun shall come

The dark has come
Look to your brothers
Sisters and daughters
The night is young

The dark has come
Tis not the end
We shall not break
Naught but might

Look to the horizon
This is not the end
Lift up your swords
With shield and strength

This path we're on
Twill not be out end
Let our tale be sung
Echo across the hills

Naught but might
We fight tonight
As shadow comes
For all of us

The dark has come
Let not this be
A fading memory
Standing our ground

Our journey made
Paved in blood
Tears of many
This is our history

The curse of mankind
Twill never be so kind
Still, we look to the sun
For the dark has come

Look for the dawn
For the night is long
And we shall see the sun
The battle has only begun