Fading into Dawn

Fading into Dawn
Part One

I have lingered in my darkness
In the light of wandering souls
Warmed by whispered voices
Yet, left out in the cold

My fire perhaps just candle light
A soft illusory glow
Tender shadows breathe to bare
My footprints in the snow

I looked into the eyes of fate
In the breaking of the dawn
While credence mauled my heart and soul
With lines already drawn

While hope had lingered in your breath
Though paled by setting suns
I wandered in my candle’s light
When logic came undone

I could not hear your gentle voice
Your whispers disappeared
Lost within my darkened brume
Reflections in my tears

I looked around at all my life
And took my final yawn
I passed along my candle’s flame
And faded into dawn

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Fading into Dawn
Part Two

I traveled through the indigo
As a child of intuition
I saw the world in silver light
With perfect premonition

I drifted into crimson hues
With passion’s blazing fire
And saw all things that filled my soul
With ravenous desire

Then I saw the endless light
Radiant, white, and pure
I heard my voice ask “Who am I?”
But I could not be sure

I found my writing on the wall
My poems in ancient runes
Verse for lovers faint of touch
Embraced in secret rooms

An angel took me by the hand
To send me back to earth
Then read to me from ancient scrolls
And told me of my worth

But I could see forever there
Where sorrow’s none to bear
And no one wears a broken heart
Nor tattered soul’s despair

Why would I return to earth
And live without your touch
To feel the pain of love that’s lost
The sadness… far too much

I see the angel wings unfurl
And hues from heaven’s glow
Decisions far beyond my mind
Please touch me…
And I’ll know

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Fading into Dawn
Part Three

There was only silence…
Time had frozen life as I had known…
I watched from above you
As you lingered in your quietude
Wondering if I were here……..
Or there
Longing for a sign…
Just a glimpse of my blue eyes…
Just a single hint of breath across my lips…
Waiting……….
Waiting for something………
Waiting for anything………

Suddenly there were voices of angels
Drifting down the alley way…
Sounds most uncommon along these backstreets…
Void of any human forms
On their way to nowhere…
Except for one
Homeless and lonely woman…
Struggling to push her shopping basket
Full of treasures
Along the sidewalk of cracked cement…
Streetlights casting their eerie glows
In the ghostly mist…
The shadow of a man passes slowly
Through the lamplight
Fading… ever so softly into the silence…
In the ebon of the raven’s wings
In the hours…
Just before the dawn…

Michael33