…is a sad but beautiful song

The heavens
wheel endlessly above
and the night
whispers it’s sad refrain
the hours
have left me drowning
once again
in the vast seas
of my loneliness

deep and green
the air is restless
and dark waves
beat upon the shore
until fading
into the distance
I can’t hear them anymore
even the stars on high
have come undone

I feel the faint rush
of my blood
feather-light
like the caress of the sun
yet still I float
like an abandoned boat
upon the azure deep of night
rocking gently
back and forth
the shoreline
ever out of sight

I am filled
with a great longing
to take that endless flight
to fall into the soft abyss
of dreams
into the honeyed remnants
of memories
there, where images of you
are like music to my soul
painted
in your true colours
all the shades
of darkness and light

winding across
the distant reaches
to the very edges of the night
I ache like a river
that hastens to flow
to swim
through your deep oceans
timeless drifting
weightless shifting
in the teeming silence
I feel less alone

but lonely
is the sound of the wind
and lonely
the sea does weep
then morning comes
to cushion the fall
and lonely
is a sad
but beautiful song
© Ann Bagnall