Unveiling the Essence

...A starlit path
 Leads me to a darker place
 Which shall reveal to me its true face
 Its mask it wore too long...
 Of grotesque forests and ancient trees
 Grinning faces carved in wood
 The scars of time mark their shadows
 Yet young in an infinite way they stood
 Unveiling the essence of majesty and pride
 As if it was a strange mist over all land
 Which flees with the rays of a new dawn
 Still knowing that it will be overruled by a new night
 Is it melancholy that is lurking behind every stone
 The subtle embodiment of yearning and death
 Overshadowing life like a night so eternal
 Causing all meaning to cease, so it seems
 Or shaping a new state of perception and dreams
 Craving to dethrone all elements
 That in perilous ways hide and cloak
 Grinning invincible, darkness impenetrable
 Yet drowning in knowing its fate
 That once the true essence will be unveiled
 ...Like the rays of a new dawn
 Yet night is the hunter for all...