Alone
Unfolding
I am mourning before the dawn
unveiling
crumpled bedspread sheets
a hollow space
where comfort once found
your slumber deep,
I find an echo
of your breath
as my tears interrupt
a yawn / a stretch
while trust feels like a home
invasion,
a rape save for the flesh...
I am a trail of moisture
upon the cheeks, the searching
throughout a graveyard home
yielding empty halls,
bleak,
of no fruition / a tomb;
I am the ache within
Darkly,
My harsh and sordid
imagination / disambiguations
roaming
To thoughts of you
in someone else's fever
a slicing cut that opens
and equals that pain
unleashing avalanche of blood
but it's only a crimson thought
which floods...
again & again...
I'm in that home now unkempt
the dust on portraits
in sepia's gloom
there's a sound of bare feet
clapping
on hardest wooden floor
In a saloon
lacking conversations
without a care taken
of why / from where / or whom
I once was strength
which wanes
Like the more waves punch
the cliff and shore,
as my reserves begin to drain
I collapse into bed
On pillow, lay...
I am the hope which wants
what lived before
My out-cries' / beg / praying
to only stay
alive yet
Afraid
dying in these
sobs of promises that fray
Like ghostly dust
In daylight skeins
I am a tomorrow
of love yet made
inept at finding any trust
I have been blind told to
break...
(My iron will
To rust.)
I am alone
since gone are our yesterdays
Since you romance your secrets
with escapades,
grinders found in spades.
I am the hush that must escape
never getting to know
the calligraphy & colors,
all facets of love's
very face,
unjust
unfeeling
replaced
I am a violin
from some distant space,
far and away
a wish
a yearning...
To display / my tears out loud
and loudly dying
Asking kindly
Love me
if only
for the sake of today
for I am
lonely...
for I am the light
at night
unfolding...
Alone.
Very well crafted and executed. I love how the poem begins with the unfolding before the dawn and ends with night unfolding...the waking hours spent haunted by lost love...
clarity of expressions, clarity in thought, life. love loneliness. thank you for all touching presentation. tony
It is a beautiful poem on life, love and loneliness having touching expression and nice collocation. I want to quote here....... Love me if only for the sake of today for I am lonely... for I am the light at night unfolding... Alone. Thank u dear Butch for sharing this meaningful poem with us.
Deep passionate feelings written with clarity of thought and mind. Well conceived and nicely penned from inner recesses of the heart. A beautiful creation. Thanks for sharing Butch.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
loneliness wonderfully hugs this poem// beautiful poem