04-21-2016, 09:36 AM
(This is in response to Todd's Too Restless to Sleep. His is better, but it was fun to write this.)
The wild of trees
leaf-bare, insomniacal
in chill wind.
Wind gathers around me
in the not-dark not-light
other state,
peaceless and unquiet.
Shh, I tell everything
that voices itself.
Still rustles and chirrs
sound and repeat in rhythmless
chorus,
no silence
to be found. Not here,
and not afterward.
~~~
V. 2
The wild of trees
bare of leaf, insomniacal
in chill wind.
Wind gathers around me
in the undark unlight
other state,
peaceless and unquiet.
Shh, I tell everything
that voices itself.
Still rustles and chirrs
sound and repeat, rhythmless.
No silence
to be found. Not here,
not afterward.
The wild of trees
leaf-bare, insomniacal
in chill wind.
Wind gathers around me
in the not-dark not-light
other state,
peaceless and unquiet.
Shh, I tell everything
that voices itself.
Still rustles and chirrs
sound and repeat in rhythmless
chorus,
no silence
to be found. Not here,
and not afterward.
~~~
V. 2
The wild of trees
bare of leaf, insomniacal
in chill wind.
Wind gathers around me
in the undark unlight
other state,
peaceless and unquiet.
Shh, I tell everything
that voices itself.
Still rustles and chirrs
sound and repeat, rhythmless.
No silence
to be found. Not here,
not afterward.