Sweet shadow
Embrace me this night
Warm, in the under-sheet spaces
With comfort
And lover’s embraces.

Sweet shadow
Enstage me this night
Odeon to sandpaper dreams
That polish my mind
In unconscious streams.

Sweet shadow
Unchain me this night
Hide me from governing eyes
Data collectors
And ravening spies

Sweet shadow
Becalm me this night
Your dark trunk a rest for my back
As I find meditation
And calm in your black

Sweet shadow
Enthral me tonight
With sticky-cheeked monsters with candy in bags
And firework wonders
With ziggings and zags

Sweet shadow
Inspire me this night
Murked well of ideas when others abate
I draw from you deep
And from thence create.

Sweet shadow
I revere you this night
For all you have hidden beyond reach of sight
You amplify life
In overcast rite.

Bryson Thomas