Final Night Song Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

face
in
the
waters
face
upwards
they
found
him
in
the bathroom
in
the
sea
where
water wraiths
were passing.
moats
of
beauty
separating
dilapidated
castles
falling
I saw them in the night
I saw them in the moon
And all was silence.
they
found
the
satyrs

all
lying
face
upwards
distributed
within one hundred square meters:
not moving
though Dawn had come
and
birds had chirped
and
trees had stirred
and
night was fled
and
shrouds and ghosts
no longer
fears spread
no
no longer.


final
final
final nocturnal verses:
the wise
the hard-earned heights
through hundred and
more
obstacles
they were perverse.

impoverished day
ill starred
right
from
the
beginning
lack-lustre
birth
unfortunate
streets
winding
in
the
brain
residing:
now
come
now
come
there were many
of the birds
that were
just vultures.

they circled
circled
round
carrying
in their claws
the cups of poison.
now
resigned
resigned
echoed the waters
echoed the night
there were
cries from everywhere
a
babe
born
in swaddling
clothes
they circled
they circled more
the vultures circled.