OH NIGHT
Painting by: Tori Jordan
Who’s that watching with big round eyes
Plumage tuft out
Hear the word from the wise
Timid little creatures try to hide in the dark
Akin to my senses
Like fire to a spark
Air flows around as I leap into flight
In search of tomorrow
This ballet through the night
Stars winking down from the heavens above
Moonlight aglitter
Asleep is the dove
Epic nocturnal celestial my prey
Clasp by the talons
That sleep through the day
Haunted by what they can’t see nor can hear
Drifting eyes peering downward
Unsuspected the fear
Until dawn flinches with her first morning wink
Gliding back to my haven
I alight with a blink
As hungry mouths waiting for what I have cast
Into the trees heart
I succumb to the last
Kevin Parish 
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