The Night Watch by Anca Rotar

The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642.

The Night Watch
 
Walk with me
through the night.
Too long have we been
disacquainted with it,
too long have we been blinded
by LED screens
and peep show signs.
I want to know silence again.
Besides,
I haven’t seen the moon in ages –
and you could be my excuse.
A dubious honour – you say
with a deadpan face.
Alright then – we can pretend we’re on patrol
like Rembrandt’s “Night Watch”
a long way from home.
I used to laugh at those men
oblivious as they are to the angels
enveloping them in a two-person aura.
But that’s the thing –
you can only see the angels
when you’re outside the frame and looking in.
And so –
if there be angels out tonight
we will not see them
we will not know.

Anca Rotar

Anca Rotar is a Romanian-born writer of poetry and fiction. She was driven to writing by her love of stories and verse, as well as by an ever-increasing fascination with mysteries and the unknown. Her biggest complaint is that there are too many interesting things in the world and hardly enough time to discover them all.
http://ancaspoemsandstories.wordpress.com