Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:09 PM
Darkest of dark nights my soul has ever known, a poem and song for SAC2
Darkest of dark nights is a poem and a song for SAC2. The look in
Gabrielle's eyes as she defeated Hope haunted me the way I imagined that
it haunted Xena during that long summer of not knowing. Not knowing
whether Gabrielle lived or died. Not knowing whether she herself could
live without her. I wrote several poems for SAC2, for the warrior in her
grieving. My dear friend and fellow nutball at the NetForum gifted me
with some wonderful drawings to go with my writing. I'll share one of
them here with you now.
Darkest of dark nights
Of all the dark nights
my soul has ever known,
this night is the darkest.
This night I am alone.
In my camp, lost, with no home,
no fire burns in this cold night,
in this emptiness with no light.
No one hears my screams shatter
the still dark night.
No one hears when I whisper
Goodnight.
No one breathes softly
on the blanket beside me.
I reach out my hand,
touch the roughness,
coarseness of woven thread,
where once I found warmth,
where once I found softness,
now I find the emptiness
of no one.
No one wipes away my tears,
no one smiles the sun into rising,
bringing an end to this night.
Each day I spend with no one,
bringing me ‘round again
to the darkest of dark nights
my soul has ever known.
In this camp that is no camp,
in this memory of a home,
I sit and wait for a day
that will bring no light,
no light to this dark night,
I am lost and so alone
in the darkest of dark nights
my soul
has ever
known.
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