Secrets of the Bayou- A poem

The sun sets on a land of secrets,

A land where love lives alongside fear,

where the heat of passion is tainted by the chill of a grave

as the deathly shadow follows a shadow of a lover.

As a blood moon rises under the star lit sky,

In the bayou, the night winds would sing.

From the tall trees, the owl call

in a haunting melody of a song.

The sound of a bell tolls through the foggy night,

As the wind howled sending chills through the bones of a lover who left only tears and flowers.

Two sides of a coin; love and murder as one blooms the other must wither