Love Poem: What Hold Has the Silencing Night?
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Written by: Tony Bush

What Hold Has the Silencing Night?

What hold has the silencing night, 
What right to refract the bleached bones 
Of daylight? 
To cloak and distort sanity 
Across the ridge of a dark 
Hump back? 
And tell me with blind words 
I am no more than a shadow on a carousel 
Of black?

What hold has the silencing night, 
With it's despot dreams and 
Sibilant drama? 
Tearing the soul from a cabbage patch effigy, 
Pointing at death with a 
Goading stick? 
And impose the belief my life is no more 
Than a trick of the light, 
A trick?

What hold has the silencing night 
That I must dispose 
Paralingual quiet? 
To shout my love at angels, 
My voice cracked like a mirror, wrung with 
Singing tension? 
And with morning liberation, 
Bright bombed proximity, love ever too tough 
To mention?