O Night

O Night, why do you come

with your calmness galore?

The boats were rowing,

My emotions aboard, cruising smoothly

The waters seemed clear and blue

Now, in your stillness,

I see the mud too.

O Night, why do you come

With your ceaseless silence?

When people draw curtains

And ready them

For a mindless sleep

Gates of my heart open

The pain seeps out in quiet tears

O Night, why do you come

with your veiling darkness?

It awakens my sleeping demons

My fears and rejections,

Trapped behind sunny smiles

O Night, why do you come

With your unfathomable void

It engulfs my light for life

O Night, come tonight I beg,

with your addictive sleep

So I do not struggle with light.

This contrast is too steep a price

For every dawn of hope