You (2nd Person Poem) Poem by R. H. Peat

YOU

Unseen, watching you;
you sing to yourself.
You are always there
in undreamed dreams.

You dangle your bare
feet in coolness at
your father's millpond.

You speak to me
with red eyes;
You touch me
with soft words; your
voice moves ripples
over dark water.

You are my heart
in sudden flight,
a red-winged black bird
into wider sky;
both above and below
within wrinkled surface
you remove each
yesterday while making
today counted clouds.

Too close now, you
are the night; you steal
my breath, my sight;
you sing your lament
into my torment.

Without you
there is no air, no song,
no release —
from your chains:
your presence.

© by RH Peat
Form: 6 Strophes - 32 lines - Written in 2ed person
Published: Crosswinds poetry Journal 2018
Annual Poetry Contest