Restless Wake Poem by Donald R Wolff JR

To rest, so weary
There is no pity
No pause for sleep
Divine

Always thinking without knowing
Questions like a river flowing
Why the mocking, not withholding
Silence is unkind

An old story so badly written
Made disrespectful from a vision
Foretold a reflection in the wine
So cruel and yet so kind

The glass was made to never break
Yet once looked through becomes opaque
Until a calling for her sake
Must the Lovely cry

Love shines beyond the looking glass
A voice recalled can only pass
Shattered longing with a glance
Therein, are thoughts of home

If feeling, is no longer kind
After, life destroys the only light
What can remain, but endless time
To taunt a restless mind

(08/19/2016)