Fight By Day And Night

• Kathryn Fisher, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2018

Night to day is as day is to night.
Where golden and darken with haste hence ere fight.
In restraint of thine stars and of night’s ominous call,
Upon cold dawn does battle break, as light rises dark falls
Burning sight upon steaming tear, thou wages war, year upon year,
And upon cycle of two and ten hours nigh.
Thy waged war doth clash upon the rim of the sky,
Why then ho? O good day and good night.
Why do doth hold sway and pin all thee their rite.
For as thine army of the night doth fly, banished hence into western sky
Upon glorious victory doth breaks in the east,
awaken gold shimmering for all; man or beast.
For stars flicker there, last cold lighted fires, beaten upon by morning choirs.
As dawn claim thine sky, night oh haggard must flee,
And skulk in the shadows of past victory.