Partially worked on thing, would like to elaborate

Nox

Bleary, dark already hour,

Slumber calls with gentle power,

Ushers in - with anxious calls

Of missed arrangements - anxious calls

To be wrapped up in warm embraces

Unite with unfamiliar faces

Gorgeous and dementing world:

Where naive hopes and wants unfurl.

Unfurl again, unfurl again,

And etherise me, dull my pain,

I see you through my eyes aflame,

And do not hope to turn again.

And turn again, turn again,

Anaesthetise the woken flame

With little time for little pain-

                                             What is this

                                             Where am I now

Out into the tarried night;

Where stars I see don’t seem to be

Light years away but merely feet.

If only blackness was as sweet

As the day I soak into

My skin like morning dew.

Alas, the bitter calm of dark

Ignites my instinct; with a spark

A paranoia seeps right through

My skin like morning dew.

Omnes una manet nox.

And I’m the only one who sees.

Answers on a paradox,

Yes, it frightens me.