SHADOWS OF SEPARATION <br /> <br />I call to you across the miles, <br />those empty miles which lie between <br />the place I am, the place I was, <br />and where I used to lie <br />and whisper gently in your ear. <br />Oh, how I hope tonight you hear <br />the message that I send to you <br />across the valleys green. <br />But yet, I hear the echoes die <br />and only the soft breeze's sigh <br />is left to give me hope that my <br />words find their destination. <br />With only silence left to say <br />the things that cannot stay unsaid, <br />the things on which our love has fed, <br />the things and thoughts that filled our day <br />with endless fascination. <br />So once again, I have to try; <br />I shout my message to the sky, <br />to ricochet against the moon, <br />reverberate against a star, <br />be picked up by the night bird's croon <br />and find its way to where you are, <br />to sing to you my lover's tune, <br />proclaim my love, and let my song <br />be echoed close and echoed far. <br />Oh Love, the fires that in me burn: <br />My fiery blood, my blazing soul <br />can only serve to make me yearn <br />to take your body and enfold <br />against my heart, to meet my goal. <br />How often in my dreams, I stroke <br />the skin that puts fine silk to shame; <br />and kiss your lips, absorb your warmth, <br />know rapture as you call my name. <br />Oh, Lover, hear me as I call, <br />let not our spirits be apart. <br />Oh, Darling, smile once more for me, <br />and drive the shadows from my heart.<br /><br />James Walter Orr<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shadows-of-separation/
