Poetry
Copyright © 2007 Tony Shou

Vanishing Love

Love has appeared and

Left just as quickly as a

Cold and drifting breeze

Heaven's Lament

As I walk alone, a clash of thunder suddenly ruptures the sky

The warm radiant sun is engulfed by the ravenous gray clouds

The heavens wail then darkens evermore as it prepares to cry

Life giving light, thus covered by the darkness that doth shrouds

Gentle breezes turn into violent winds of frost, chilling my bones

Uranus bellows once more and endlessly, sheds his woeful tears

His sorrowful tears pierce my face as he screams and moans

Ouranos, I envy you being able to do what I have not for years

On this day of misery while the sky itself cries, I can only laugh

Laugh insanely as I lose myself slowly, my senses to the wind

I laugh not out of joy but so that the pain I harbor be cut in half

While I laugh, heaven's tears blur my eyes making me blind

Farewell to my reason and sight as more tears I doth swallow

Wildly I danced in the rain, while feeling all the more hollow

Utopia

I speak of a land that’s small but filled with peace

There’s fruit trees, a home, children, and a woman

Each night I would visit this land and feel at ease

Each time I see something new, and today, a man

By his side the dark haired faceless woman leans

The man looked at her lovingly and kissed her nose

They watched their children on the emerald greens;

Two petite cherubs with cheeks the color of rose

On top, clouds of butterflies hovered above the two

The doves, from their souls, sang to the sapphire sky

The man, seeing all this, said to his wife “thank you”

He wraps around her and slowly, smiles then cry

His wife, called the kids, together a family of four

The four of them rests happily in this land of lore