Love Poem

Solace

by Silvia Hartmann

Solace did I seek
within your arms,
and haven calm you were
when all around us
raged the night
and seas as high as mountains
threatened with their roar.

Enfoldment of silence
and a stillness born of ages
did I feel from you,
so patient your acceptance
of my tears and of my youth,
you questioned not,
just stroked my hair,
your breath the tides,
the hush of nightwind
caught in stately elms -
oh how you soothed me,
healed me of the days ...

In your remembrance,
a gust of rain
the window holds at bay.

© Silvia Hartmann 2004