Challenge 87

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This week's challenge: a poem by Lord George Gordon Byron. You can think about the entire poem or focus on individual lines or phrases; whatever inspires you.

Darkness
by Lord George Gordon Byron

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went -and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
( Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light; )