dog day darkness --- 12 april 2000
nikholas "katana" f. toledo	

i haven't been writing poetry for some time now, as you can see
by this one --- the format's weird, the length is off and the 
subject matter isn't so nice at all.  even so, i think i should 
take a break from my summer break!  don't ask me why i wound up 
writing something this broody in such nice (albeit hot and 
humid) sunny weather.  maybe it's my perverse side acting up.  
yo, mara jade, this one's yours!

night hangs low
hangs hard
hangs silent.
			coldly gazing
			impassive eyes
			stars shine merciless
stilled . . . .
wan and lifeless and pallid
the world is a sickly-white wash of corpse-light
the shadows are dead
secrets laid bare,
harsh unmasking
no refuge, and hunters every step of the way
the worst is yet to come . . . .

darkness falls
hope wears its mask of life snuffed out
and the call to madness reverberates
danse macabre, the final dirge,
siren song of the eternal void
cry as you can
try as you might
plead as you will
none to heed but uncaring night . . . .