When your dark shadows haunt and loom <br />My wits turn sound of Life's great fertility; <br />When your python-embrace turns me to doom <br />I torch my day's unpartable magnanimity; <br />Things that are beyond the notice of my eyes <br />Crawl through my mind with a touch of royalty, <br />Scents whose wings do not awaken my sighs <br />Are then imbibed with uttermost loyalty; <br />In your bleaching fire as shall my husks break <br />In your smiting fancy thus my sanity melts, <br />A curse teaches us boon, my sinews wake <br />To sinew in all when your fangs sting my belts <br />Like a dream bites blood; as you heighten my birth <br />Let it build, as you do, my Death, you some worth.<br /><br />Susmit Panda<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-your-dark-shadows/
