Farewell the Night!

Cool air drifts
Across my cheek
Like sudden snowfall, and I laugh,
Perhaps at me or at the way
The touch engenders
Such a solemn love of things unseen,
Unheard of, understood.
The hand that brought the air could lift me higher
Than itself
Until I dangled over water, over land,
So overjoyed to be at peace,
But then I realize once again
That it was made to let me fall…
So farewell, Night.

Farewell the subtle moon
With creeping fingers, distant smile.
Above the earth, the velvet dark
Was made to hold your sadness
For a while
But I no longer will.
Farewell the fierce euphorics
Of the shadows on the hunt,
The skulking fear of things that bite,
The claws that tear and rip and kill.
No longer fed, you’ll fade away
To nothing, and the winds will bay much better,
Only now my window’s closed.

So sing your songs,
I will not hear them.
Disappear—
I will not care.
No vengeful sulking
Could persuade me to return.
The hand that once caressed
Could wrap less fondly round my throat,
Constrict my breath with
Dizzy visions of
The frenzied scythe,
But I would only laugh again,
For I have conquered!

Farewell, Death.
Go--
Get ye hence
To find your own sleep
In a graveyard filled with facile ghosts
And tranquil manics,
Murdered children,
And forbidden loves.
I’ll watch with you till morning
Ere I go my way,
But then you shan’t see me again.
For when I finally fall the last
No simple hand will catch me
Save the one that brings the sun,
The swifter rising, and the endless dawn…

So farewell Night.
Farewell!

(What do you think? Ideas for a new ending if necessary?)