Dark Music

Dark Music

A pulse, like music in the night,
a melody of life,
entices like a candle bright,
calls to the devil's wife.
Entranced, she moves but not from greed;
she simply responds to her need.
    Entranced, she moves.
    Entranced, she moves
to seek the source, to darkly feed.

A pulse, like music in the night,
echoes a lovelorn heart.
His faded visions of delight
leave him feeling apart.
Despondently, he mourns what's lost -
prays for relief at any cost.
  Despondently.
  Despondently
he waits for love that's not star-crossed.

A pulse, like music in the night,
draws these two together.
He willingly yields to her bite.
Floating like a feather,
they find release  - oblivion;
hers in the dark, his in the sun.
  They find release.
  They find release
in choices that can't be undone.


Notes

The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines. Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line at the beginning of each stanza. In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different. The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8. The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:
Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d refrain of first 4 words of line five /c
Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4, 4 refrain/8