When I looked at you
My eyes betrayed me
The silence spoke louder
Than what I claimed to be
Love and agony
Became one and the same
A never-ending torture
I bore with much pain
Love is just a curse to me,
Ever occupying my mind
Love, always hiding
Never able to find

Misty evermore
Lay the wood dark and still
Clumpy trunks stood quietly
Beyond the windowsill
Frosted patterns glittering
In lonely candlelight
Button nose and pudgy hands

Smushed up against glass tight

Peering out of cold window
The little one saw then
A burst of light over a hill
The sky now rosy golden
The peaceful night shrunk back quickly
As newborn sunbeams chased
Reluctant stars from pink-streaked sky
Flitting about they raced
Awestruck she stood there some time
Listening while fledglings cheeped
Watching her small world transform
With wide brown eyes she peeped

constantly avoiding eyes
that stared at her from everywhere
shuffling down the long brick hall
she dropped a book; didnt care
tears welling in bloodshot eyes
she turned into the only place
that she could hide from everyone
feel the warmth drip down her face
screaming bleeding wishing he
would get out of her mind.
ever looking for the one thing
she could never find

Flickering across old bricks
The flames held hands and danced
Embracing, twisting, in-and-out
Of thrice-charred logs they pranced
Spinning 'round and 'round
Shadows mimicked every deed
'Till gusty Wind burst through the cracks
And seized them in his greed

Stirring, churning, mixing
So the chilly wind whipped round
Delicate snowflakes made their way
Toward crusty frozen ground
Spilling softly from white cloud
Floating in night air
'Till hovering o'er silent pine
They softly rested there