Son of 6 word story -- 6 (or less) lines of 6 words each

My mind is my greatest enemy
twisting, turning, churning thoughts and fantasy
Dark Sky morphs into Light Sky
and the other way around too.
which one is which, either or,
which is better? who can tell?
 
I see the Angel up above
Sculpted in stone, up on high.
Gazing down benevolently upon the streets,
Watching the flow of buy people.
Just an icon, just a statue.
What have her stone eyes seen?
 
Gargoyles: enigmatic composite creatures, winged, clawed
Simian, feline, canine, ursine, dragon-scaled.
Yet with just enough intelligence lurking
In their wise and weary eyes
To disconcert watchers in streets below.
 
Forbidding, bleak, and excessivey sombre looking,
Though dressed all in purest white.
Stern of face, with serious demeanour,
Holding a book in one hand,
Quill and ink in the other.
What sentence does this judge pass?
 
The page, smoother than finest vellum,
And there he writes our deeds
In mighty strokes, firm and bold,
In inks of black or white,
Gorgeous shades of crimson, purple, gold ...
But most in shades of grey.
 
Engrossed and captivated, bound by words.
Lost in a myriad of passages.
A retreat from this mundane world,
If only temporarily, we sadly return.
The power of a good book.
 
What lies over the farthest horizon?
What lies across the deepest sea?
Things I've never laid eyes on
Appeal to the adventurer in me.
 
Ageless beauty, a sliver of disguise
To cover soul-dead, black eyes,
Talons, curled in hate, ready to split
And rake Youth's innocent body red,
Stretched over a bridge of sighs.
 
October is red, a dark red,
Velvet, it is the grand exit,
The last farewell of a performer.
At home, October, a final time
When fires can be freely lit,
Then we vie with the cold.
 
So, tell all, your chilly tale,
La bella della nocte, sweet night.
Compass truth within a cutting scope
And make us all a fitting male.
If that is what you want
Or thereby hangs a Shakespearean Tail.
 

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