The stillness of the midnight hours

Great thoughts come to us in the midnight hour. Wishes for a sweet hello or some knowledge of the kind people in our life, If they are okay?

                       The stillness of the midnight night hours

Where are you my sweet lover?
Where are you dancing and drinking tonight?
Where are you running freely in the big world?

I know the free highway is stronger than love.
The long highway make us need more than we can have.

I told you once, I loved you and I drove away.
I knew,  you can't return to where you had begin.
Tears and separation killed the memories and leave us in a nomad state,
needing nothing.

The stillness of the midnight hour return broken thoughts and dreams back.
I have tried to forget your face and sweet words. You asked me once.
Do you miss me? Do you think of me on lonely nights?
Do I still make you crazy still?  I told you. Yes.

You are the only beautiful place I have known.
You are my safe haven and peace. Your sweet kiss is my first and last need.

I left you for war and I didn't look back.
I didn't know. I taught you love mean little to the people, loaded with too many dreams and needs.

In the mist of midnight hour.
I try to set-up sweet dreams. I never left you on the December morning.
I held you and never released you.  We had 50 years of love.

My sweetest love knew who I was.
Just a storyteller wishing for the safeness of love for a second.
Just another greedy man willing to pay for his sins later.
We do.

I learn too late. We hold on to one true love in one long life.
I remember you. Pale Winter skin and strawberry red hair holding me tightly.
Your long warm kisses left me breathless.

Where are you now?
You escaped me and found new dreams and places.
I wish to thank you, for showing me how lonely I was.

                                Coyote/John Castellenas

Author's Note

New poetry. I hope you like.

Reviews

[Aethereal]

No one has really love us at all in the past unless they have encouraged us to be just as loving to others whom we may have come across on our remaining journey through life. “Where are you now? Inside us! Deep inside us reaching out to comfort others with our hands.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are right. Thank you for reading and the comment. The foolishness of youth allow us to make many mistakes.

[Aethereal]

The biggest mistake of all in terms of our survival as a species would be if we were void of the capacity to love and feel love. The dearth of this mood may lead to our extinction someday.

[Ashira Macy]

The one that got away. The one we always wish we had tried just a little bit harder to keep. Forever we mourn the could have, would have, should have. This was a beautiful piece my friend.

[Coyote Poetry]

Old wise saying. We miss the things we couldn't hold on to. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Frieda P]

You always recreate and capture the sweetest/sometimes bittersweet of moments within memories in your poetry John. There is forever a touch of the gypsy soul within your words, filled with love and wanderlust, I adore the stories you tell within your endearing poetry my friend. YOU leave me breathless....

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Frieda. I appreciate your kind and sweet words.

[Frieda P]

Your words always have a way of transporting me to another time and place, Ken Simms has that same knack, you are brilliant in your delivery Coyote....

[Nwanna Onyeka Benedict]

love this work. To me, warm in my heart

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Nwanna. I appreciate the positive comment.

[Lyn Anderson]

This is exquisite, as always. Your poems transport us into your world -- beautiful.
A few minor things
The long highway make us need more than we can have. (makes)
I knew, you can't return to where you had begin.(where you began)
Tears and separation killed the memories and leave us in a nomad state, (left us)

NONE of those minor grammar errors take away from the amazing way you put together your poems, which are snippets of life in beautiful prose.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for the help and reading. I do appreciate.

[Lyn Anderson]

It is my pleasure, and my honour, and I mean that.

[Sophy Freebirds]

A deep introspective piece.At midnight tehe thoughts haunt us. Leaving us panting for more love;then we awaken and realise they are just memories deep inside us.. "I wish to thank you,making me realise how lonely i was" and i am still... such a heart wrenching.went right through my heart.One of the best of yours :)


~Sophy

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Sophy. I appreciate the kind words.