Thursday Poem: Time And The Sky Revolve Around Us

Time And The Sky Revolve Around Us

The stars beyond the distance, everywhere
Too far away and nothing close to touch,
Beyond our grasp, and reach. We only stare
And long for hands that hold and comfort us.
A single hand can blot out night time skies
And take eternity away from us
To leave us here, retelling those old lies,
Which can no longer satisfy and calm.

The fading light creates so many worries.
We feel the coldness of distance so close
In those dark hours, and so we make up stories
To give us comfort under these dark nights.
Return ourselves back to the centre, still
The sky and time revolve around us once
Again, to know our place, all we fulfil
In our own minds by being at the heart.

We can tell ourselves tales to make the sun
Appear and winters run away to hide.
We can ascribe and see the patterns run
Where there is no such cause, or reason, just
The push of life to keep on keeping on.
There are no reasons other than this here
And searching brings no answers, no light shone
Into the darkness out beyond our touch.

A day begins, and later ends, as we
Remain alone inside the darkness once
Again. Although we do not want to be
alone, we draw the curtains against it,
So frightened of the dark and what it hides
And all it will reveal of our dark fears
That curl up all our nights to hide inside
The shadowed corners of our darkest dreams.

We make the monsters haunting all our dreams
And all the creatures hiding underneath
The night’s own heavy blankets that it seems
We bring out from the night to warn ourselves
About the dangers of spurning the real
And letting fear go crawling across us
While cowering here, too frightened to feel
The darkness holding all our secrets too.