POETS UNITED - NIGHT

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” - William Cowper

This week, Poets United has as its Midweek Motif, the theme of “Night”.

Here is my offering:

A Winter’s Night

A Winter’s night:

And the chill pervades

The dark, dank air

And knocks insistently

On my frosty window.

The moon descends

And kisses the diamond stars goodbye,

While bare branches shake off

Little pieces of loneliness –

Ice, falling down on frozen earth.

My heart still beats,

And each muscle contraction

Reminds my frigid body

That it must keep on living

Though hope is long lost.

A Winter’s night:

Time grinding to a halt,

As tremulous candlelight

Attempts to tear the endless darkness

But my clock finally stops…