Twixt night and light

Night - roiling dense and dark,

the aftermath of day,

smoldered across half this world

and Shadow lost her way

She fused into the inky black

stealing through the wild

and vanished swooping from the land

where lurid unlight smiled.

But as the rayless fog advanced

its restless step was halted

and in the midst of sooty gloom

a flash of light exhalted!

A gleam, a tiny golden spark,

a radiant piece of day

It tore the shroud of night aside

and Shadow came out to play

Leaping, swaying, soar and surge

vast as the light expanse

and now! as tiny as can be,

in her merry Shadow dance.

But the spark burst forth in radiance

so brilliant to behold

and Shadow faded once again

consumed by luminance bold