Night has awakened with its
rustling claws; searing shearing;
meager remnants of sleep
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wow...the darkness here is simply gorgeous...and I love love love the third stanza...excellent write my friend.
'perhaps nights always have the last laugh' Wah Wah! ... excellent.tasteful a gem glistening in the dark of night.
wonderful complex metaphor ''Last of fires from your shoulders where my head had rested once offered some hope to wrest out winter from the frozen lines of fate '' embedded in a wonderful poem...10++