Night Whispers

Night Whispers The pebbles of light in shades of grey dissolve before my eyes The dark embraces my very soul, as the last light fades and dies It’s dark, so dark, that for a while I think that I’ve gone blind Then memories from so long ago start whispering in my mind ‘Do you remember the time when you were judged before your peers’? ‘Or when you needlessly caused so many people to shed tears?’ ‘Do you remember the boy who never agreed with anyone’s view?’ ‘You should remember’ the whispers say, ‘for that young boy was you’ I tell the whispers to go away and leave my poor head alone Why do they come and remind me of that for which I cannot atone? Silence now, I pray they’ve gone, no longer to haunt my brain But from a distant part of my mind, the whispering starts again ‘Do you remember that day at school, of humiliation and shame?’ ‘And how you kept your silence and let another take the blame’? ‘Do you remember the time you should have helped your truest friend?’ ‘You should remember’ the whispers say, ‘how his life you helped to end’ ‘Please, no more’ I tell the whispers ‘I’m sorry but what can I do?’ ‘You can do nothing’ they whisper ‘but that does not mean we’re through’ ‘You remember how you turned away as the tears rolled down his face’? ‘The despair he must have bitterly felt when you offered him no solace’ ‘You remember seeing him punished, as you watched without remorse, You could have told the honest truth, but you did not of course’ ‘You remember seeing your truest friend, How he looked you in the eye? ‘You should remember’ the whispers say, Doing nothing but watch him die’