a smudged out moon
glows in hazy opalescence
where it should hang
brightly glowing
in an indigo sky
now turned a blackened gray
by vaprorized moisture
hanging wet blanket heavy
from the horizon

i look for a silver gash
to break the somber night
of a promise of inheld fury
in clouds invisible in the dark
and listen for the growl of distant
rumblings to announce fury breaking
through the distilled quiet
but nothing flashes
but a simple twinkle
from an insect lighting
its way as it gambles
through the pregnant night

i wait for release of tears
from a depressed atmosphere
to break in relief upon my roof
i wait until
night breaks into a gray morning sky
shrouding the world
in a promise given
but not yet kept
and the storm watch
is not lifted with the new day
as a bird song attacks the silent air

i wait
and watch