Lullaby

A sky of woven ebony,
Where burning with a million lights
The constellations told their tales
Of romances, of fright-filled plights.

The moon caressed in the dark
With icy touch, she gently
Led the lost with chilly light
Glimmering in the silver sea.

And yet, I could not find a way
To go back to where I belong
The path had long abandoned me
And every way I walked was wrong

I will never venture to
escape this night, where I am lost
I'll stay among clematises
Pale and still and caked with frost.

This I thought, this I feared
As I wandered aimlessly
Through glens and fields. I climbed the trees.
My efforts were spent gainlessly.

Suddenly the dark was lit
Looking up I met the sight
A silver tail slashed through the sky.
A woken star, a star of life.

Then steep descending, rapidly
Fell the star as bright as day
And with no sound it came to rest
Near trees about a mile away.

The calls of creatures, large and small,
Were heard from near and afar.
I followed rodents, birds and wolves
To look upon the fallen star.

Shocked was I to reach the place
For, so calmly, there was lain
A horse of shining aura white
With silver saddle and braided rein.

Softly did I tread to her
To those large, immortal eyes.
In them melancholy sings
The sadness of the planet lies.

Her coat seemed cloth of silver spun
Her mane, the finest silken thread.
She beckoned me to take the reins
With gestures of her heavenly head.

On the saddle I took my place.
She took a trot, so light and fair,
Then galloping to frightening speed
We rose, with grace, in to the air.

The world below became so small
Such a sight I'd never known.
We neared lights of towns and I cried,
'You fell from Heaven to take me home!'

But swiftly passing by the towns
We rose into the blackened sky
bursting through to the sunniest day
And only then I understood why.
For looking back with heightened sense
I saw down to the forest floor
my body lay frozen, pale and still
Midst clematises where I live no more.