GENERATIONS Copyright (C) 1997 by Not Nice Music
II. A COLLECTION OF OBSCURITY by Edwin M. Drogin

9. Perhaps

Can a magic time recur?
Repeat the quivering night.
Or am I off to search
A feather put to flight?

Uncertain winds...
A whim, a mood, and then
Lost in revery,
Too late to search again.

Is the dark's place
Enchanted more than day
When things are seen
And swiftly blow away?

Nor candle's gleaming
Shadow dance
Can glory over dark
And leave a love to chance.

But, the dark is
Not a soft black
Bounding arms
Must push it back.

Move near
With still lips and languid eyes
To hold the earth up closer
To the skies.