Wendy Webb
Gazing On Midnight
If I could write until your moistened eyes
would bleed the ghostly moon all bloodshot red,
so that my words might echo ever afterafterafter
when you gaze after midnight, all alone.
Then you would understand my Keatsian mind
and I’d abandon writing, streaming tears.
For words would phantom my invisible ink,
to bend your midnight to soliloquy.
If I could write like that, I would die orange:
tart worlds around the sweetest left unpenned.
Yet Keats, alone at midnight, failed to worth
of words alive beyond his feeble pen.
So I’ll continue writing my dark night,
each firefly unknown and vanishing
beyond that ghostly future, wrapped in shades.
I cannot be a poet when I’m dead.
Imminent with sunshine, to bring joy
and hope of immortality when long-gone.
Otherwise – at least I’ll not feel SAD,
nor wreck my neighbours’ nerves beneath the moon.
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