macona inlet... 
Pursuit and Abandonment
I search through days and nights unending
My sense of place when enchantments cease,
And time for kindred spirits mending;
These yearnings of a velvet souled
Lone wolfs desire, one day to hold
Another in whose arms I find peace.
My shadow and dust seem to remain
All I have when my soujourns are done,
That give me shelter from this cold rain;
I wish a thousand stars to hear
The lament of my age, this fear
That I shall grow old and die alone.
To all that I have ever dared love
I make one promise I long to keep,
While railing at gray skies above;
'Ere in silence I must depart
When naught remains to stir my heart
I shall surrender my love to sleep.
Steven Anthony Barnett
Copyright 2001 Steven Barnett
this poem will be published in a book entitled "The Silence Within" available through the International Library of Poetry, available 12-02. |
