The night owl of Minerva's requiem by Kevin Daniel Scheepers

 

Image / Simon Rizzi 

The night owl of Minerva's requiem 

The day has vibrancy, the night          freedom 

The tenebrous night is for liberation and bashful

self-transcendence 

The salient day the glowing hue of triumph that follows

To traverse that which                       disorients

To bewitch your troubles to a distant asteroid

burning away 

Only for its nightly return in redolent dreams

Continuous                                            unfolding

Appurtenant turtles all the way down, doubt

all the way up

Ineffable moments, thus endless poets

© Kevin Daniel Scheepers

Kevin Daniel Scheepers

Kevin Daniel Scheepers is a 28-year-old man from South Africa. He completed an MSc in Biotechnology in 2023, but always maintained a personal interest in the written arts. His work has previously been published in Audience Askew and Harrow House Journal, and is forthcoming in Brittle Paper and Emergent Literary.

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