Where Night is Not Black

An opera without words,
Music rings like wildebeest herds,
Thundering through earth’s heaven
My heart pauses at eleven eleven

Wishing upon a star out of sight
Beyond the ghastly moon white
Far from the sun’s rays of light
In the deepness of eternal night

My dream now given up to atonement
But now receiving only judgement
My sins poured out like leaves in fall
Heavens store house’s bounteous hall

Taking two steps back and one down
In the wallows of my despair I drown
Without a safety net to hold back
In my chest I feel a crack

Out flows the waters of the Nile
Not fresh cold and clear but red and vile
Poisoned the land infertile from the breath
Of God’s sacred servant of unnatural death

Taking from nature one last lungful of air
My soul out of my body does tear
One more moment free from despair
And one last silent slow prayer