Great Love

The frosty air hangs quiet and still all around me

I can feel the heaviness of my thoughts 

It's almost as though I can touch them

In a moment of emptiness my heart aches for what has been and what will not be

Ever again

I can see the dreams of tomorrow and they are so close I can smell their sweet scent

They taunt me and whisper to me

They call to me and I want to follow

I want to run wild and free without care

I want to be in that bright sunlit field of promise and joy

But I cannot chase or follow

I must turn away and bravely walk into this peacefulness of silence

There I will find all that is right within my heart

 I feel a tear forming in the corner of my eye

I let it roll down my cheek

For it must escape and leave it's trace so I will know that once there was great love

And great love can never be lost

It may scatter to the corners of my mind and grow cobwebs

Though someday when all is right with the world once more

Someone, perhaps I, will brush them off and find myself again.

Poem by: Kathleen Prue