Castle Reverie Poem by Shalyn Stachmus

Our plight of dark is cryptic somehow.
It cannot share. I wonder now:
Why are you so far away?
In the shadows of the moat,
You're swimming deeper. Downward. Home.
A perfect nightmare in the sea:
Star-crossed love too drowned to see.
It's like a globe full of shadows;
Full of potential no one knows.
My sight is marked and set in clouds.
I have to share, and wonder now:
Why have you nothing to say?
In the willows of the boat,
You're digging deeper to save me from my own.
Our twisted dream behind the clean,
Pushed far beyond the pillar's lean.
Try to break a baneful spirit,
But Death is much too late to hear it.
You stole the clearest image built
That I created like a quilt;
What could you possibly gain?
Now just look outside the glass.
Fall any further down, and surely you will crash.
But come with me beneath the night,
And I will show you cryptic light.