…away in the dark

I dread the quiet
I can hear the night
calling me to you
I cannot sleep and I crave you
the hours seem to pass so slowly
yet I linger here to find you

I stand at my window
the flame of my candle
barely moving in the still night
and feel myself melting
vanishing away in the dark
I never stop you from leaving
if we parted for a thousand years
our love, would not forget

yet in the gathering shadows
I still feel so alone
I hold you in my thoughts
and I ache to listen to you breathe
to feel your gentle touch

I have become an errant petal
hurtling through the heavens
forever searching you
I am the wild ocean
that ebbs and flows
in an endless dance of longing

I cannot find my way back
and in emptiness itself
in the dead of night
I now understand
and I ache for the silence
and the desert of my dreams
© Ann Bagnall