Lady moon you are a lamp of darkness, <br />You cast your shadow on the sunlit earth <br />Eclipsing spirit, stunting growth, a furnace <br />Of icy coals destroying heart and hearth. <br /> <br />Blazing sun you are a lord of chaos, <br />Your music of the spheres a dreadful drum <br />And screeching strings, and I the tumbrel <br />Grinding across the cobbles to the thrum <br /> <br />Of heart-stopped beatings and hard boots’ slow stamping <br />Awaiting for my grinding wheels to halt, <br />The silence falling when next comes the clicking <br />Of knitting needles, then the last assault <br /> <br />Upon my neck, that severed from its screaming <br />Beneath this nothingness of light and sun <br />Rolls like a blasted moon with head unblinking <br />Leaving the constellations free to run. <br /> <br />LRH <br />2.26.06<br /><br />Linda Hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-tale-of-two-dominions/
