My Love, The Night

For you inspire both love and fear

and bring out darkest shadows and shades

For moonlight peeks through withered branches

and guides us to the dreamer’s land

For you have held clandestine lovers

in times of peace and times of tears

For you share the horrors day does not see

and shelter those souls light won’t keep

For stars will twinkle in innocent eyes

and bring us home to some place safe

For silence is its deepest with you

and cradles softly this poet’s sadness

For somewhere in this pitch called night

there is someone who waits for me

Danielle Shaeffer