Midnight Thieves

[Dark Muse]

Midnight Thieves

By the fading embers
of days dying light
she rose from within her
dark earthen tomb.

Beneath the dawn
of the moon's translucent
stolen light she stands
in the pureness of naked
flesh.

As the Sister Orb crowning
above, beneath whose shadow
she dwells, only a shade of
that cold nude perfection,
she too is a thief.

A taker of souls, dreams,
passions; desire quakes
along the angles of her
trembling flesh and quivers
down milky-way thighs
of the moonlit hour.

But it is ever their
own desires reflected back
upon her, she is the mirror
into the primal soul, clawing
to escape its chains.

For like the moon
she too is an empty vessel,
denied a sacred birth right,
always the hallow womb.

The moon has been cast
forever out of the daylight,
as she is cast from the sight
of men.

Now she feeds upon
their lusts of carnality,
drinking drips of the soul,
for it is the closest she
will ever come to tasting
love; no closer than the
moon to the sun.

[PrinceMyshkin]

What an impassioned poem! What a searing indictment of this woman or of her type!

[Jesterhead]

This was very well written, very deep, i liked it.

[hillwalker]

It reminds me of the old legends of the 'succubus' - a female demon fabled to couple with men as they slept (and presumably leave them feeling confused and guilty the following morning assuming they recollected the dream).

But in a way you also make the reader feel her emptiness and empathise with her.
Quite sensuous as usual, but with a hint of your trademark darkness.....

[Dark Muse]

Thank you all for your comments


It reminds me of the old legends of the 'succubus' - a female demon fabled to couple with men as they slept (and presumably leave them feeling confused and guilty the following morning assuming they recollected the dream).

But in a way you also make the reader feel her emptiness and empathise with her.
Quite sensuous as usual, but with a hint of your trademark darkness.....

Yes! You pretty much have it. This poem was Lilith inspired, and it was meant to be written with reverence and not condemnation.

[Dark Muse]

What an impassioned poem! What a searing indictment of this woman or of her type!

It was meant to be more sympathetic, and almost worshipful than an indictment.

As Hillwalker pointed out the succubus connection. It was meant to express the way in which she (Lilith) was denied the ability for having love, and thus lust is the only form of affection or closeness she is allotted, and it is not her own lust but the lust of her "victims" simply being acted out upon her.

I used to the word pureness in connected with nakedness as a way to remove the idea of shame, or a need to feel shame in being in ones natural state.

[MorpheusSandman]

Considering I've done some studying on the myth of Lilith I guess I rather quickly caught onto the allusion (though it could, as hill said, been one of Lilith's succubus/demon children). This is definitely a piece worthy of such a fascinating mythological entity. It's reverent, though I don't think it crosses the line into occultish worship. I like how the piece seems to indict her victims even more than her. It seems to suggest that if "she" (and the themes surrounding her) exist it's only because we allow, or even want, them to.

[Dark Muse]

Considering I've done some studying on the myth of Lilith I guess I rather quickly caught onto the allusion (though it could, as hill said, been one of Lilith's succubus/demon children). This is definitely a piece worthy of such a fascinating mythological entity. It's reverent, though I don't think it crosses the line into occultish worship. I like how the piece seems to indict her victims even more than her. It seems to suggest that if "she" (and the themes surrounding her) exist it's only because we allow, or even want, them to.

You are partially correct. It is true that this poem is more indicative of her "victims" but from my point of view Lilith herself is not something of evil, thus, I do not see her existence as something that needs to be banished, rather it is they way she is popularly treated. In my point of view Lilith was in fact a heroine.

For many people outside the Christian tradition, primarily many (but this is not to suggest all) Pagans look upon Lilith as an archetype of feminism and the independence of women, and as someone whom was wrongfully and unjustly forced into an "evil" persona, by a patriarchal society.

[MorpheusSandman]

I've often thought that some great poet should write a complimentary epic to Paradise Lost which features Lilith as the anti-hero instead of Satan. Given her contradictive and complex reputation for being both an evil archetype and feminist heroine I think it would make for a fascinating work.

[Dark Muse]

I've often thought that some great poet should write a complimentary epic to Paradise Lost which features Lilith as the anti-hero instead of Satan. Given her contradictive and complex reputation for being both an evil archetype and feminist heroine I think it would make for a fascinating work.

That would be interesting. I myself have written several poems about Lilith as heroine and being unjustly persecuted.