Night Falling

Night falls
and no-one listens.
Why can't they hear the
screaming as
night falls?
Tell them to listen to the
night falling...
I blink my eyes and the
darkness stays with me, so I
squeeze them tightly and
imagine there is daylight.
Taking on the world
of a blind man to sheath
the reality of night...
No one hears the night falling.
But I have heard this sound
oh, most apalling
more often than the 'crack of dawn!
Why do they only hear the screaming
when they are asleep
and dreaming?
Tell them to listen
to the reality
of night falling...

The Abyss

Penetrate the darkness
Reach into the hollows of your floor
Underneath the ever -haunting sadness
Are places you  have never known before

The dark intrigue that pulls you
into these horrid depths of woe
Lead you to discover
.....That sometimes daylight is a foe

Beneath the charcoaled ashes of your soul.

Obscure obsession brings heavily laden
 Hands shoving  you into your own little hell
Pulling you down by your ankles
The only thing to save you
is the rope around your neck.

No contempt for this place you are going
and have visited so many times before
Just futile memories of  narrow escapes
  No blissful journey is in store.

I am never coming back!  Should I escape once again!
Yet while I am here ,  I sift through ashes of my past
and discover lost beautiful gems now black carbon,
choking dust and broken shards of glass.

Keep your head down!   'cause though what you find there
 is sadness
Looking up , you will just reveal
 the glimmering,
blinding ugly light of what lies ahead..

Loosen your bootstraps?  Or the noose around your neck?
One risks death.  The other certain death.
Which will you choose?
As you muddle through the ashes of your soul?