“you are not alone / laying in the light / put out the fire in your head / and lay with me tonight”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday:

“The night is darkening round me,” Emily Brontë

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.


Chosen for tonal affinities with last week.

---L.

Subject quote from Not Alone, Patty Griffin.

Comments

[mme_n_b]

As the third old Jew said: "Can you guys stop with the politics?" ;)

[conuly]

Always love this ♥

[larryhammer]

I used it as her poem in an anthology of 100 poets 1 poem each. So, yeah, I like it too.