A rolling of tympanies
From out of the darkness
Flashes from the outer realms
Reveal the prince of Erebus
Royalty of the dark
Silent night
Lay claim to the rotting grandeur
Born in the new day of timeless light
Proof of ignorance
Unnatural wastelands, unasked for but paid for
In full, down the line
Don't ask by who, it's been buried
In the dark gray morning
A bell sounds
As the prince of Erebus is revealed
Not as foe but as avenger
A reminder of the days before
A clown in a suit of darkness
The darkness beyond the door
He who has kept the score
And keeps a lone vigil on a silent midnight hill
Waiting.
G.S., '83
photo: Marilyn Moon,
heavily altered by GS