The Carnival

This is another one where I've had an idea floating around in need of a home. This time it was a line from an old song, and an image that I stumbled across when thinking about the rainbow piece last week (that line, the rainbow in the night, was originally going to be part of this one too, but it just didn't find it's way into it).

Bonus points to any of who who can identify which line is from the song and which song it's from.
As always, I welcome your comments/criticisms, as it is most definitely a work in progress...



The Carnival

The dark shroud falls
Untethered upon the world
Suffocating the day's last light

As the music winds down
And the last ride comes to a stop
One by one the lights stop blinking

The gleeful smiles of the clowns
Changed to mischievous grins
Brimming with evil

The bright neon of the midway
Replaced by a darkness so deep
The shadows run from themselves

The uneasiness once held at bay by the
Laughter of innocent children
Spills into the field

For this is when the real freaks come out
To revel in the non-existent glow of the moon
To extinguish the stars with their icy breath

Singing, dancing, haunting
Through their dark carnival
The children of the night