tonight...

Here I am once again
Sitting alone in the darkness
Silent solitude
Waiting, just waiting...

Slithers of moonlight splay my room walls
I can hear crickets in the night
The air seems still
The chill is haunting

I feel hot tears welling up
I want to cry
But somehow, those jewels of emotions
Do not fall

There are so many things I want to say
But when I open my mouth
My tongue freezes
The words do not come

There are so many things I wish to hear
My ears are open
But the words do not come
Perhaps patience will earn me some

Ah, a single jewel falls
A glistening trail in its wake
The heart is weak
The mind is asunder

Feelings so deep I cannot comprehend
Emotions so thick I cannot hold
Lost in a land with no space and time
Caught in a web of void

Unable to juxtapose
With what I have ever experienced before
Weary and spent
As I drag myself

The crickets are still out there
Slumber beckons as I lay me down
With the hope that as time goes by
Perhaps patience will earn me some