Hush

Gracing ember times

Within the silver glade

Flesh snagged and torn

Upon the icy blade

Laden love is gone

Over the gilded moon

Silenced is the lullaby

Broken cries the loon

Lost in the blackened wood

Stricken by shadowed grief

Emperor so far and gone

Elusive is relief

Drowning deep and frigid

Ashen breath draws thin

Sining in a boundless sea

Jagged toothy grin

Alone cries the loon

Delirious and free

Tap, tap, tapping

Bony fingers of insanity

Shoved beneath the umbra

Shrieking to the night

What would it cost to see

That precious golden light?

Weary bones grow taught

Wicked and distraught

Beseeching eerie gods

Immortality grows fraught