6
He asks, “Why are you here?”
With one deceitful leer,
“You do not belong in here.
Please go,” he casts with fear.
7
“I cannot leave just yet,”
Says she to who she met
“I scour for my pet,
Who left when it got wet.”
8
“My world,” the dusk man lays,
“I see its corners and its ways.
Of all my darkest days,
I have not seen such strays.”
9
She says against the night,
“I went out here with might,
I won’t leave without a fight.
Perhaps you need some light?”
10
“My world, fine as it is,
Light does not fit with these,”
Holding cypress leaves that hiss
And nears them for a kiss
11
“Your world, I see, is lonely,”
Bravely, she tells him slowly.
“I did not ask for pity,
It is darkness I heed solely.”
12
“But it is you that has so,
A poor child with much to grow
All you have is your glow
And where to go, you cannot know.”
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Night at Sunrise
ŞiirLost but courageous, a little girl searches for her pet cat in a world of troubled gloom, where she meets a man, masked in blinding darkness. This was written and posted on NearGroup, and as per a request, I decided to post it here.
