Calm before a storm

Calm before a storm

As I lay here all alone tonight

looking out the window at all

the stars up in the beautiful

midnight skies I wonder if I

will ever find true love again

as the teardrops start to

form and begin to fill my

tired bloodshot eyes while

the loneliness which I feel

moves in surrounding me

like the calm before a storm.

Then soon after all of the

dark clouds from all of my

sorrow start to form, followed

by the raindrops of regret with

all of the memories that flash

through my mind like lighting

along with the crash of thunder

that I soon will never forget.

The shadows that dance

upon my walls reminding me

of a better time and place,

back when love still lived in

my shattered soul, in my

broken heart, and even

forever in my mind, which

seems to me now not all

that long ago where you

could find a smile always

upon my face, yet when you

look now you would not find

even a trace. Maybe If I

wished real hard on all of

those stars up in the sky

tonight I just might find love

once again, but this time I

would do whatever I could

to hold on tight, while never

letting love go so as to never

again feel the way I do tonight.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A #Poets Journey