Silhouette

G. Higgins   05/01/03

 

Look up my love

From your reclined pose

Within your darkened room

Look up and stare

Towards the lighted hall

                                                                                                      And tell me what you see

A manly figure there

A stark outline rimmed by glare

Does this sight now

Cause you some despair?

 

A shadowed man

In stark relief comes

Toward you now yet blinded

By dark you sit in

An object grows aside

Grasped firm in his hand

What it is you cant tell

Your breath it stops with too your heart

As a step he takes

Intruding on your room

 

Does it menace?

Will it cause you pain?

Is there somewhere you can run too

To escape this thing?

Does it mean to harm you?

Where did your slumber go?

Will you run from silence?

Where is there to go with panic struck?

Step and closer he is

No, to the bed you’re mired!

 

A flower comes

To caress your neck

Hall light now reveals a face

That’s welcome and familiar

Faint away in dead relief

And hide that chilly fear

Your mind has played a trick my dear

With shadows and with light

There’s nothing for to fear

That silhouette was I