The Unseen

As darkness engulfs my heart;
remember me tonight.

I once
counted sheep-- bloodied;
and yet alive.
Backward minds sleep
awake in moonlight.
Tick, tock.

Hidden helm of darkness,
a shadow in my chamber.
Your eyes a cleft in earth
-I do not want
your pomegranate seed.

"My love,
You must return to once you came
for your sake and mine."

and with that he hid
pomegranate seeds
upon his lips that night.

"She begged me to take her."

Now,
we count sheep-- bloodied;
am I alive?

Only one season;
are we to entwine.

Tick.. ..Tock.