To the Night, <br />my sanctuary and saviour, <br />how I delight in your velvet <br />folds and soar over rooftops unafraid, in your enveloping <br />arms. I want you to hold me tight and never relinquish your <br />safety, solitude, silence, silence. <br />How I leap when, slowly, softly, you encroach from behind <br />the redness and slowly lay down your jacket <br />on this careworn muddy ground for your mistress, <br />the moon, to be seated upon. <br />How I dance when, a million miles overhead, one of your children, <br />a star, leaves a trail for me to trace with my inky fingers. <br />And how I die when you fade, you relent, you are conquered. <br />Stay, night, stay and surround me, <br />stay and seduce me, <br />stay and protect me from the horrors of the day.<br /><br />Effie Yalena Steyn<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dear-night/
