Written by Terry Davis

Tonight around midnight
The quiet chillingly loud
Loneliness creeping into my mind
Thoughts drifting
Desiring to talk with someone
Decide it’s better
To embrace the loneliness
Trying to see where it might lead
Although not sought
It is familiar
And somewhat a friend

Melancholy seeping into my soul
In the darkness
I see it clearly
With this sorrow
I feel a familiar comfort
In a misaligned sort of way
Remembered from the other times
Loneliness was near
Questions, feelings,
Asking why I am here
No answers
Just a yearning for learning
Which comes after loneliness departs.

Covering me like a blanket,
It’s just a blanket
Feels warm and secure
Welling up from my memories
Formed from a comfortable time
Loneliness is similar
Finding me in quiet moments
When my mind can free flow
Given to a vague element in life
Loneliness forms and shapes
Redirecting my thoughts
Reshaping direction without will
With a feeling of anxiety
In what I will become.

Although I do not wish this feeling
I welcome it
For in its stress induced familiarity
I have grown
Not in leaps and bounds
But gently like a light breeze
Through the old willow tree in my youth

Getting back in touch with myself
During these lonely moments
As I am not stumbling
through my daily, hectic life
A wispy vision, warming my sorrow
I will carry you with me
Until you depart
With the sunrise tomorrow
Someday to return again
Another night around midnight.