Nuit in You

Nuit in You

Strange how you light up in love
as emotion breaks down your defenses.
Strange how you fade to black,
then re-emerge like a diver surfacing,
your eyes drugged with love,
shining like autumnal stars.

You rise in the vampire shadow
Without a trace of fear,
and in your savage love is both
the trance of death and resurrection,
as you kill without a weapon -
my black Kali, my star spangled Nuit,

Strange how the universe expands
in the ecstasy of death.
Strange how reawakening in your arms
erases the pain of remembrance.
Strange how the shattered self
reassembles
in the cradle of your arms.

Poetry by Therion (c)