Dark Shadows

Surface shadows cavort

S t r e t c h i n g

Or shrinking

Playing in the sunlight

Entertaining mimes

Mocking the puffery

Of staid reality

Beneath the surface

Sharper shadows

Edge their way

Through crust to core

Where molten bubbles

Grow and break

Gasping, steaming

In a place where fire

Gives no light.

Heaven and light and peace

Shall hold no dominion

Until the earth rents

And the shadows are set free.