But Still It Fell

So comes the dark and lonely night.

I stood holding up the sun,

but still it fell from the sky.

The star curtain falls,

a shroud of my failure

wraps me in ebony.

A bat wing breeze

brushes across my skin,

I shiver in my memories.

Love and hell are four letters

one stole my heart,

the other watched it burn.

Alone was not my destination

when I believed that

two could become one.

I stare into the bleakness

where even light will not

penetrate the dark.

Night, please go quickly

I wish to escape the demons

that haunt in wedding white.

©Susie Clevenger 2012

Written for Facebook's "Dark Night" Creations Contest

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