The Night of the Shadows Dance

Shadows dance along the ground
Shadows dance over the burial mound

Sadness hanging in the air
So full of despair

Purple tints
We should have seen the hints

Blues racing from the grave
Making all of us its slave

Blacks twirling round
Pulling us deeper into the ground

Reds slowly bleeding in
Pass around the collecting tin

Whites chilling grip
Holding us forever in nights dark nip

Creams from the once happy dreams
Nothing is no longer what it seems

The Shadows are back
Dressed in Black

Clothed in the hues
Demanding its due

Shadows stealing across the ground
Everyone it is time to gather round!

Bow your body to the wind
And maybe then this night will end

But the shadows grubby hands
Still have their demands

Their long chilled fingers stretching out
Taking away all doubt

Deaths no exception
To the shadows deception

And forever night does reign
Letting the light go down the drain

We should have known
But now a ill wind does blow

That you can not escape
That which is your fate

And so with the shadows whirling round
We do so sink into the ground

Eyes close against the tints and hues
And ignore the words of our muse

For the Shadows have taken hold
Since only they are so bold

As to take from the light
That which it has no right

You mind in a bind
You will no longer find

The colors of life
But those of strife

The colors of the night
The shadows are in sight

Don’t try to run
They will only think it fun

It is time to give in
The shadows win.