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John R
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since 2000-12-14
Posts 141
Toledo OH

0 posted 2009-05-29 06:31 PM



I Weep

By every altar, mourns with woe,
one with sorrow crushed.
Tears without eloquence flow
cheating the day of joy, the night of rest.
Sadness rides with me and the waning moon.
My heart,
struggling and beating in shuddering fear,
is fiercely anguished torn, and night,
will nightly make grief’s length seem stronger.
Direful changes lay in dreamless night,
where nether abyss swallows the light
and understanding is writhed upon the wind’s grating cry,
obliterating the nerveless silence.
Seven times the space that measures day to night
I weep.
In dark secrecy,
hiding,
obscured to the eye,
I weep.
It’s a ceaseless rain that beats upon my heart,
embracing clouds in vain,
never stopping to feel the day's disdain.

Fearing not to shed these tears,
they waft upon me in the midst of darkness,
as Hope's counter gleam to fate.
Like the first drops after draught,
they fall down at will,
refreshing the wrinkles that furrow my continence.  
I am so lost in the black depths of night,
of love,
that I can no longer tell dream from reality,
and I pour on it my tears,
crying the world away.
I cannot choose,
but I weep
for that,
which I fear most to lose,
you.



© Copyright 2009 John Romstadt - All Rights Reserved
BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2009-05-29 07:43 PM


Sometimes our tears have a way of getting the best of us.  

I loved your ending, I think our fear (of fear itself) is the devil in disquise.

Nice to read you John R~

Bill Charles
Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
2 posted 2009-05-30 12:32 PM


John R - amazing emotional write, liked this one...

BC

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2009-05-30 05:17 AM


Now I feel like weeping ... for you but it could just be a "writing exercise" so perhaps the feel is for myself who relates to your words.  Still, to make one "feel" is good poetry and you have penned good poetry.  Thank you!

Helen

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