Awe

                   Awe

They think that moons were made for darker tones

Of shadow than the sun can make, these men

Who don’t believe in love.  They haunt those zones

Beyond affection and devotion, then

Conclude that love is non-existent red,

A scarlet or a crimson made of blight.

These men exist outside the borders of a bed

That beckons them with more than just tonight.

Their reds are shades of iron and of gray,

Are lead and tarnished tools.  These souls have not

Experienced the brightest landscapes day

Presents.  They fear its vistas will be fraught

With deeper canyons than their souls can cope

With.  They are cowed by love’s dizzying slope.