Showing posts with label it is cold outside your embrace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label it is cold outside your embrace. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2021

His Dark Eyes,

 

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse #178
where Shay my amazing friend & poet is hosting!
Come join us!

Perhaps you did not know how bright last night...
Those stars were lit with longing of my own...
~John Robinson Jeffers


It is in the shoulders where his strength lied

Where burdens were kept like coats in a closet

Heavy with forests we could never save

I lost my way there

Searching deeper inward by the night stars

 and his dark eyes

There I leaned on limbs that were ready to break

Sometimes light burns the view beyond recognition

And the darkest of nights is a kiss as soft as a vapor of smoke

Lingering right here

Warm and close

 then gone

Just like that

Only embers are left now

Yet they still can burn

Like stars at night always do.