THE POEMS OF THE NIGHT <br /> <br />The poems of the night <br />Are written in the silence of darkness <br />They listen to nothing but their own internal song <br />They know no meaning <br />But Music- <br /> <br />They are dumb and quiet <br />Difficult and sad <br />Waiting forever <br />For a love which will never be again- <br /> <br />They are old poems ancient poems sad poems lost poems- <br /> <br />They are the poems of a night <br />Whose only hope is sleep <br />Not love <br />Which given to youth <br />Cannot say in old age anything but sorrow- <br /> <br />The poems of the night <br />Are the meager feeble music <br />Of a long and quiet goodbye- <br /> <br />Night and more night <br />Silence and more silence <br />Writing which too can only hope <br />For the remembrance of restful sleep-<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poems-of-the-night/
