Another lonely night <br />I wait by the shores of my mind <br />For a breeze to blow clear <br />The staleness that lingers there <br />Friends far and few <br />From another lifetime <br />I wonder about the retinue <br />And the thing we use to do <br />The smoke the drinks the laughter <br />And all the things we were after <br />As the door shuts quietly on the distance night <br />Before the palatable hope subsides <br />In the brief reprieve I hide <br />From loneliness staring me in the eyes<br /><br />Brian Kilpatrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-lonely-night-6/
