Poem: Before the Lights Go Out

Before the Lights Go Out

When winter comes, the wind will bring back the long-lost memories I want so much to forget.
When winter comes, the snow will once again fill the ground, and I’ll begin to think about you.
I’ll think about those winters we spent together, and then I’ll realize once again you’re gone.
I want to be like spring, happy forever when the cold wind dies down.
I want to be like spring, happy forever when the flowers grow and the birds fly up in that beautiful blue sky.
But whenever I think about you, and whenever winter comes back, they haunt me like a ghost.
I want to kiss and hold you, but it’s only a figment of my imagination because you’ll never come back to me.
When winter comes, you won’t be here to kiss me when the lights go out in the dark quiet room.
No more laughter from the heart, no more laughter from the love that you brought into my life, and no more you.
There’ll only be a dark shadow lurking around my heart like your love killing me softly whenever winter comes around. 

Copyrighted @ 2022. Taken from Into the Night: A Collection of Poems, by N.N. Nicky