Shadows Of All Shades Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

shadows
Shadows of all shades
and colors
sub-dividing matter: energy
ramifying and
rarifying
the skeleton of old
I heard them laugh
a big laugh
then they ceased
silence.
Ossuary
Of long deep quaffs
Of bones from graves
And tombs and
Charnel houses.
the indifferent moon
is used to these laughs.
Ah! we humans will propense
be to laugh as skeletons:
human will you not like
and relish crumbling into a
handful of red-white dust?
There be nobility too
and sacredness in such a
dust.
For sacred the human be
and more he grows
more
with every
shadows
shadows of all shades
and colors
sub-dividing matter: energy
ramifying and
rarifying
the skeletons of old
I heard them laugh
a big laugh
then they ceased
silence.

Calmed be the waves
Those same waves
That rose at dusk
And made havoc
Of twilight beauties
The bats ceased to shriek
And went back
To their hanging upwards
Downwards
Calmed be the waves
A current of strength
Fanned by Neptune blew
As to a ramming road
A little below
The breasts of the seas
And liquid waters.
But now
But now
There be the return to night
As of the other night
As yesterday
As the day before
As before
Before.

On land and sea
Floated the scent
Of ossuaries and of
Sacred bones.