A Look Back

So, I wrote this poem that I am about to share with you a long time ago in a poetry workshop course.  It was based on a prompt given to me by me epically wonderful teacher Emily Wall, but like everything I write, it meant much more to me that simply an in class assignment.  It was an expression of how I felt and how I wish I could feel.  I am happy and blessed to say that I have found someone who's arms will wind around me forever.

What is Loneliness?

A widow who sits

Glancing out her window, to the couple holding hands

Snuggling so close that the mist of

Their breath I the cold twilight meets

As though it were simply one persons breathing

They seem to not mind the iron bench beneath them

Which is frigid from the winter night’s breeze

That blows puffs of snow

Over their booted feet

Perhaps their woolen scarves keep them warm

Perhaps their coats, shielding them from the crisp air

Or, more likely

Their arms

Which seem to winds around each other forever

As their chilled cheeks touch in their embrace   

Their silent onlooker,

Up in her window

Is like a lighthouse whose light has burnt out,

And been abandoned by its keeper

But still watches over the ocean

            Kaleigh Lambert