Love and hope in difficult times

Love Never Fails

Holding my ground in an emotional storm of free verse

pencil illustration by author

cumulonimbus
mounting amassed
on the now near
once distant
horizon
intimidating
all consuming
so too
the prospect
of doom
that waits
to engulf me

I stand firm
hold my ground
my countenance
a fortress
again against
the puffed up might
bluff and bluster
instability
mimics delusion

I feel
the tension
turgid hot air
rising
humidity
sweating fear
synapsed
to the snap-chill
of reality
a trigger
gone too far
there’s no coming back