"Not the darkness of the night"

Not the darkness of the night
Nor the darkness brought by might
Not the darkness before the light
But the darkness in our minds
Is the darkness that we must fight

Ex Tempore LXXX
M.M. — 27-Jun-2014

"She fell away"

She fell away from me like the coming of the autumn
Gradually and inevitably the stone sunk in
We lost each other when night took away our sight
Now the shadows come in and the winds sing

I once held fire in my arms
Once upon a time I knew the stars' words
They spoke through her—such was her voice
But goodbye was the last I ever heard

The cold closes round as a shroud
Warring with the glow of the embers
Silence tries to bestill my heart
But never will, for I'll always remember

Ephemeral dreams are all that's left
And a tether to the past
I will hold on to the ghosts that haunt
To the very last

Ex Tempore LXXIX
M.M. — 25-Jun-2014

Questions

I find myself in a room of questions.
Questions lock and bar the door and
questions are scrawled all over the walls.
In the grip of doubt I ask myself endlessly
of how to escape the cages,
to find my way out of the dark-night forests.
Questions I have asked for years
are as familiar to me as my kin and
replayed as often as my most important memories.
But the worst question of all is
the one which I know all too well
and yet do not know how to ask.

Ex Tempore LXXVIII
M.M. — 01-Jun-2014