Taming the Equilibrium

Wings of leathery darkness
Cast shadows on the ground
Cutting through the air
Miraculously without a sound...
Wings of a feathery lightness
Cast a shield overhead
Taking grief from allied tongues
But leaving none for dead...
Two points on a scale
Opposite in everyway
One stalks the night
The other hiding in the day...
But attracted by some force
Maybe hatred maybe love
Which brings these two together
In the atmosphere above...
Sadly there is not time
For sharing darkness and light
Save for the approaching dawn
And retreating twilight...
As dark merges with light
And light merges with dark
A short time of bliss
Lights a forever spark...