Brawling with the Night

Light refracts as it pierces the watered droplets,
Raining down from the heavens.
Patches of light are sprayed as the droplets
Refresh the sodden Earth.

Thunder lances the evening sky,
Under fog’s touchings.
Ominous shadows feast on the light,
Swallowing it whole.

Make haste, the darkness advances,
And the light cannot hold fast.

Back to the wooden field
That shelters the murky depths,
Back to the silent nook,
Where the fight cannot be seen.

The frog retreats to its pond,
And the snake to its hole,
But they cannot escape,
They cannot just hide.

Light does battle with the darkness,
As thunder pounds the sky,
Again the shadows feast,
Again the creatures retreat.

The light wanes on the horizon,
Weakened by its wounds.
Finally the sky is filled with its blood,
And darkness reigns supreme.