Throwing Rocks Poem by Leria Hawkins

Oh how I wish to love you
Like the winds of season’s past
To recapture precious moments
Now shattered, broken glass

And how I long to hold you
Up close against my breast
To feel the steady rhythm
Now stilled and laid to rest

Sweet sunshine once warmed me
On cold and wintry days
But now the winds cut through me
No more to feel the rays

And all the happy seasons
Have blurred beyond my sight
I struggle in this darkness
Still searching for the light

Oh, how I wish to touch you, dear
To feel your passion flare
Like days and days from yesteryears
When each day I’d find you there

Oh, how I wish to kiss you, love
To feel your lips on mine
I’d dream only of tomorrow’s
And leave today’s behind

Night winds once sang to me
In warm and soft refrains
But now they howl so bitter
And bring me sorrow, pain

Years and years of yearning
Have melted in the snow
My heart was left deflated
Without a place to grow

Oh how I wish to love you, dear
Like I did in younger days
Before the stones of certainty
Swept the flames away…