(Not exactly based on prompt)

Lucifer's Assurance

Moonlight guiding my way, brisk autumn wind on my face, drifting from shadow to light and from corner to corner. While my feet were gliding on the ground, my eyes gazed at the stars in their place. The very same place they were the night before, oh how they always returned. I wished others were like that, although I was a lost soul in ...

It was red rain, the parents told their children, that rained down upon them from the crosses. And it was a shrill laughter, nothing more, that came with such rain. But they had no words when the priest fell from the temple roof. And they had no words as comely homes and faces became homely from the flame and the sword.

Undeniably it was the madness humanity covers with what they call civility. Wa...

'Tis life away from you I forget

Such meaningless measures as the clock

Or the watch or hourglass

As they move

They move so slowly

And life apart from you is small

A bud waiting for winter to flurry onwards

For flowers to bloom

So that it itself may bloom

And I may sit at my desk

Or stare at my picture

And my eyes may be here

But truly, they are seeing

Many a strange and wonderful thing

All wit...