(Inspired by Robert Lee Brewer’s post at http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetic-forms/types-of-poetry-forms-quatern. Check it out!)

 

I will be standing in the dark, by Clay Held

 

I will be standing in the dark.

Those are the rules that I live by.

When the day lays its head to rest,

And night crawls from under covers,

 

While all sleep warm inside their beds

I will be standing in the dark.

Against the dreaming oak outside

Beyond the window’s yellow light

 

With the world underneath my feet

And the stars blanketing my mind

I will be standing in the dark.

My only partner, the black cat

 

Who slinks in shadows like a wraith–

He hunts the vermin in the field

And sleeps beneath ink-blot night, and

I will be standing in the dark.