Sharing Sunday – Child of the Night

Today’s Sharing Sunday piece is by a poet who resides in the Americas again! Americans really rock. Here’s his poem, make sure you check out his stuff down the bottom he has a few books out and some links for you guys to check him out.

Child of the Night

I have to wonder now and then

as the dreams I once held divine

Have left me just like other men

to age and wither on the vine

Where once I thought that I would be

so much further along in life

Now the dreams that I once could see

so cut me quick just like a knife

Perhaps the gods that rule my fate

have turned their backs upon me now

Lacking what I once thought so great

leaves me this truth to disavow

Where is the strength that gave men pause

where once I bent life to my will

When I was game for hell and cause

and drank until I’d had my fill

Be careful where your shadow cast

as the dimming light pays a toll

The day will come you breathe your last

when you will have to face your soul

But then I gaze upon my child

with the strength and the fire to fight

I think of when I was so wild

I shunned the day and loved the night

It makes me want to continue

to keep the Hounds of Hell at bay

Push the muscles and the sinew

to wake to face another day

 

About the Dreamer

Tate Morgan is a poet by nature. Compelled through a life time of experience to give voice to our existence. To honour the struggled. Not the reward. Hopefully to see something of note. He is a product of the Midwest. Raised on the plains states of North America. i was nurtured on the ideal akin to Mayberry. He grew to manhood under the Midwest sun. Playing Baseball and running the streets of his little town. Where friends were lifelong spirits. Essence of their souls follow me still. It was a simpler time. There were no shades between right and wrong. Full to the rim with absolutes. In the place that he came from all was right in the world. But he grew up so did the world. Along with him the rest posed immortal questions to the creator. Till the world was as you see it now. A complicated shade of grey.

To find out more about Tate check him out on Facebook, Writer’s Cafe, Amazon. Check out his books Life’s Tree, The Ties that Bind and My Immortal Soul.