Night

Oh lovely moon, pearly dish of tears Were you as pale on that night of fears

When that ship sank into the inky depths of silence?

Oh moon, why do you not weep now? For the young and healthy boy that prayed to you?

His lips besought the cold mercies of the world and still the waves dragged him under

How do you smile so calmly? Teach me that smile you shroud it with clouds but the screeching seagulls know how you smiled down at him While he breathed his last, waves crashing over him, his heart hung

Save your cracked smile paint your face the mask of a clown for somebody else who will you turn away give me some respite cares for your

Do you see these waves which lap at my feet like greedy hands grabbing his hands grabbed at nothing as you watched with your frozen smile

Oh wretched moon he cried out and he begged but you smile you sadist at his screams your lips as thin as crescents sharp as knives he had no help he was alone and you let him sink beneath those crashing waves still he drifts above