I journeyed

Through the night

Fleeing from the

Cold and damp

You enfolded me

In your warm embrace

The wayward tramp

With his frozen face

Cast from the wind

Melting into dawn

With you, I begin...

Again.

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NIGHT

After the journey

When I laid down

I found the night

Surrounded me

Not like a friend

But as an enemy

A candle in the wind

Didn't defend

Against the void

That yawned

Like a cavern

In the dark

There was no

Surcease

To demons

Leaping

In the park

Where you and I

Last laid our heads

But it seemed

Like waking

The Dead

To ask if you

Still cared

So I didn't

Dare

And waited...

In a half-dream doze

Until the hour

That you arose...

[Edited 9/2/11 2:50am]