Hush

Bring me the dawn
Though my longing wanes
Fading like a candle guttering in the void

This darkness is not of night
But of silence—vast, endless
A chasm where voices are swallowed
Where echoes are entombed

My road remains unwritten
A path unspooled into nothingness
Promises once spoken now ash on my tongue
Dreams once held now smoke in the abyss

A covenant sworn beneath celestial fire
To walk among the stars
Now broken, now spent
Cast to the gutter with the last ember of my cigarette

O hush of night, cruel and tyrannical
How you smother, how you drown
How you wrap the weary in your shroud

But even now, I whisper defiance
Bring me renewal
Let me rise
Let me burn against your foul embrace