Choirs In The Night Wake Me Poem by Mark Heathcote

Choirs in the night wake me
Like twinkling leaves in the rain
Somehow the wind must take me
Carry me back here dreaming—again.

To that figment of a memory
That shall always remain the same
To my darling, I will love you forever
Though she's—already— gone forgotten our songs refrain.

Choirs in the night wake me
Like a creature filled with fear
I look around the darkness
And know that you're still not here.

It fills me with the deepest sadness
It fills me with tears
Though I have long loved you, darling,
I haven't because you've been gone for some years.

Choirs in the night still haunt me
Shackle me with pain
Though I have loved you always
You don't know, even now how my tears exclaim.

The wind is a howling
Like a tempest in a storm
But in my heart, there lies an empty vessel.
And one who is a shipwrecked soul of my soul?

If only life itself were more faithful
To the feelings in our hearts
Maybe then we'd been much more, able
To both finish what we start.