Eclipse

Why do I lack?

Where do I falter?

My words blot black

My dream: my assaulter

I hide from the light

I seek refuge in the stars

My future was so bright

But now dreams are so far

I dare not look through my eyes

I find I fear the very thing I sought

So I hide beneath night's guise

to eclipse the fear with which I'm fraught

My eyes are dark with night

My smile, forgotten but by moon's arc

By day I disremember my plight

But night makes wounds grow stark

© copyright by Michèle Aimée Lahaie, 2009