Statue of the "Oh How..." Night

Oh how sweet this night may seem
Oh how bright the stars may beam
Oh how cool the wind may feel
Oh how knightly the shadows may kneel
to the moons light

Be wary and still those “Oh’s”
Do not be fooled,
Take heed
Not everything is,
As it may seem

I for one am not fooled
By the night’s seeming
Or the moonlight’s beaming
I have seen the horrors teeming

I heard the night’s betraying breath
Call upon the harbinger of death
To my door, it came a knocking
And in its frozen, icy arms
It carried my hearts soul to the sky
Turning me to stone and silencing my cry

Now I am a statue of the “Oh how…” night
Forever frozen in my fright
No longer who I used to be
No longer free

Cast in stone I’m left alone

My stony eyes see through the lies
My stony ears hear the truth
My stony tongue utters no more sound
For in stone I am bound

My stony feet take no hurried steps
My stony lungs take no shallow breath
My stony nose smells the rot of death
My stony arms hug the chilling air
But I am stone and do not care

Finally with stony tears
My stony heart beats no more
Empty, loveless to the core,

My stony heart beats no more

No more warmth and love
This faded with your fading life
And cut me deep like a knife

With your final breath
It beat its final beat
Now you breath no more
Now it beats no more

Oh how true the lark my sing
Oh how much warmth the sun may bring
Oh how the wild perfume in the air may cling
Oh how softly the wind chimes may ring

But I am deaf and blind to all
For what happened in that “Oh how…” night
Will be with me in my “Oh how…” days

As I stand statue still
My stony skin feels no more warmth
My stony eyes see no more light
‘Cause as I held your clammy hand
My world crumbled into sand