#423
Silence
I love the Holy Silence
Of our quiet house at night;
There's no talking,
There's no barking,
There is just the sheltering dark
With the Silence of one light.
night
A Riddle?
#381
The Dark Night
I saw myself in Heaven
One dark and starry night;
No one else was there though,
Which gave me a ghastly fright.
"Where are all the people?"
I cried to the star-lit sky?
The answer came down quickly,
"Those who've learned to die
Frolic in the sun-lit meadows
With God's Angels from on High."
The 3 a.m. freight train...
#165
Sleepless Nights
Rapidly roll the railroad cars,
Rattling through the night.
Only the restless remark them,
Receding under faint starlight.