Cereus (Queen of the Night)
    
    old ugly cactus bush
desert nightmares
    scorch her dreams
warp her existence
  
     at night
in the moonlight
    she blooms
only once
    one midsummers night
when evil can't touch her

     she blooms
despite this stained view
     of heat and mirages
beauty and purity come out
    
     on this moony night
when evil can't touch her
     or her dreams
of coming out as the queen
     closing forever
in the morning rays of the sun

6-05-09
D.E. Clark