Bereft

in #poetry5 years ago



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Rain is raising goosebumps
In puddles
Sending an icy shiver
Down my back,


Pervading the stillness
With abject loneliness.


The past is in the mist,
Gray distances...
Childhood remembrances.

Drizzle dampens everything
Making noon solemn,

Turning nearby windows
To flickering icons.


But storms with jagged arms
Don't frighten me

Only morose
Grayness of haze,

Unending tedium
Of days.


I realize
Everything is gone
except traces of you
Inside me

And gradually,
The years and storms
Will also sweep this away

Leaving nothing left
That's not bereft
Of you and rainy days.



© 2019, John J Geddes. All rights reserved



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