YOUR WORDS
I read and then re-read
them
I feel your presence near
Some of them bring comfort
while others cause a tear.
Your words how they
inspire me
To stretch, to bend to grow.
With humor, wit and wisdom
Ignorance your only foe.
The shroud of night
envelops me
Cold, lonely, velvet black
And selfishly... post-midnight hours
Stir desires to have you back.
Time, it is so strange
to me,
I'm lost, I don't know how
To span that widening chasm
I call by "then and now..."
Everything is measured
now (by me)
Before and after
There's nowhere in the middle
So little Love and laughter
So very large a part of
me
Died with you on that night
Few around me know
or understand
Living life is such a fight........
.............unfinished
Written words © by Nina Roberta Baker 1997