I Love The Darkness About You Poem by John Tansey

Darkness surrounds you
As spirals of smoke
Wrapping you in myth
And the delineated danger
Of the world,
But your proud defiance
Breaks through with gestures
And chiseled features
To dally with the heavy air
And tilting your face
Out of shadow into light
You flirt with a foreboding
A Newport in your hand
And whisper in a trepid voice
Aware of your mortality.
Such a crumbling beauty
Leaning forward in a skirt
Wisps of black hair shading your eyes
Your sexuality is in your frailty
You are as the motherly moon
Scarred but proud
To hold up a starless sky.