nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson)

THE INEVITABLE STORM

No guiding hand
The snow storm fierce
Feet are cold
Face to grimmace
Pulling shoes
From frozen depths
The heart to beat
In silence kept.

Beard freckled
With frost and age
A thousand dreams
Captive, caged
To wander in
A twilight haze
Half in death
Half enraged.

You bitter wind
That howls in vain
Are we not
Two the same ?
Locked in Winter
Held in fright
Both to succumb
To falling night.