Severus Alexander

Windy Day

Sometimes on a windy day

I look out through the window

 

a tree in the wind will sway

and leaves will fall in silence

 

The tree is wild and knotted

sticks upon the earth, dry and cracked

 

no bird will perch upon its bows

no leaves of green lie in the grass

 

In the night it calls to me

a lonely sound, softly whispered

 

Into a fearful, far-off land

where nightmares rest by light of day