Dark Clouds

Dark Clouds gather around us all. These are poems about life, depression, longing and foreboding. Death, destruction, dreams of the departed. Heartfelt and personal for the people I love and the ones I have lost. May they live on in my heart and my words. TOUCH OF AN ANGEL We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.