I Want... A Dark Poem

I want to touch the dark

To feel the forbidden through my fingertips

To have excited fear fill my heart

At the taste of sin against my lips

I want to dance at the midnight hour

Bathed in sweet firelight

My steps enticing ancient power

As I romance the deep night

I want to answer the darks call

That beckons from reasons edge

Into that darkness I want to fall

Jumping from the safety of sanity’s ledge

I want to drown in denied ecstasy

To throw caution far away

To lose myself in forbidden fantasy

In the nights garden I want to play

I want to feel the dark bite

Taking me beyond fear and pain

In my own darkness I want to delight

Far from my life so mundane

I want to see wonders hidden

To make the darkness mine

To feel the rush of the forbidden

As I cross over that last line

I want to find a way

To escape what I know

To get out of the harsh light of day

And bask under the moons glow

I want to touch the dark

And have it reach for me

A whole new life I want to start

A creature of the night I want to be

©K.A.E Grove