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Writer's pictureMichael Hawes

Lone Wolf Howls

Lone wolf howls

Hearts melodies

In time to tears

One with the rain

Birds fly at the first chord

Only a mate

Can translate onto love

What all others find frightening

Winter comes – Wolf holds out

Understanding true cold

He looks up at Moon

She must have seen

His accomplishments this day

Her light illuminates the place

He has saved within

Long ago he wandered

Through unfamiliar trees

Crossed streams

Too young then to mark his path

He is now to old to return

Where he first stood in awe

Under Moon

Far from fear

She commanded his instinct

Voicelessly demanded respect

Colours pulsed inside

Then fanned out as spectres

Through dark green branches

Day came and movement

Was the only meaning to life

In her absence

Each time the sparks die again

In the Mystery

She finds the place

He has curled up to rest

Her light follows till it overcomes

He rises on tired limbs

As all is erased by a magnetism

That pulls feeling from every root-branch

Of his awareness

Swelling in time to the ocean

This breath of the heart rises

Full to his throat

An inverse orgasm

Once more he howls

His ears hear only the night wind

Moon hears his questions

From where do you come? Why do you follow? Why can’t I touch you?

Emptied now, he sleeps

He must find where she goes

When Sun engulfs her silver light

He must reach her and see

If she will take up his road

Share his feasts

Endure his famines

Bathing all in bewildering soft

When Sun dissolves into day

What has warmed the night

And made it understandable

Lone wolf howls

Hearts memories

In time beyond tears

After the rain

Birds fly at the first chord


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