Poem: My Nights Are Long And Lonely

Note:

(This is a poem I have posted before...

 but for some reason it came to mind tonight.

 Hope  you won't mind a re-peat !)

My Nights Are Long And Lonely

My nights are long and lonely.

So many thoughts invading.

Rendering nil and useless,

my feeble stabs at sleep.

   Thoughts scuttling, to and fro,

of all the words we’ve spoken… 

  yet, many more left dangling-

     unborn - or buried deep.

Past phrases leap and frolic.

Unanswered questions linger.

Meanings lost in limbo,

the two of us have found. 

Be still!

 My weary heart

is needing rest and solace.

Still, endlessly, the memories

 continue swirling ‘round!

At last, sleep is descending,

 so deep that dreams can‘t follow.

…And, for the moment, resting…

   the puzzle - You and Me. 

This welcomed rest I covet,

 embrace it, seek to hold it!

For these fleeting hours,

I know that I am free.

   

  

June Kellum

2005