Empty This Gloom 

by Susan K. Rowse
  
It would take more than all winds combined...
Tornadoes, hurricanes...all with a fierce whine... 
Still nothing could dry the tears hung out. 
For sadness engulfed inside, I shout! 
Why are you gone? Why not take me? 
Now I'm alone embraced in a sea... 
Of sadness, despair...pity this fool 
Terrified of being...just being...a tool 
Of lonliness now, no smiles to turn 
The corners up or a kiss to burn 
A tatoo of hope inside of these walls 
Empty this gloom...hollow these halls
As shadows of fog...broken with grays 
No light to shine...gone are the days
For hope that has flown with wings in a sling 
For ghosts are alone, love's kiss...a sting 

It bites to the bone ..

This pain never pales 

It soars with the moans ...

 In whispers ...it sails 

Future a question

Nothing to greet 

Lonely souls sigh...

Hearts miss a beat

Chins dripping salt...

Liquids in pounds 

Crying and streaming to pool on the ground 
For now you have vanished and I am alone
Flown with the wind...hearts turned to stone 
Tears of hot moisture, burning the flesh 
No tokens of love...left here to mesh. 
Some recall of happiness...Jesus this pain 
Marrying my tears...in torrents, it rains 
Waiting for grace...praying I cry 
Redeem all my tears and help them to dry. 
 
© 2004 edited version/by Susan K. Rowse 
          first published: 
Delphi Amatuer Poetry Journal