This Poem was Submitted By: William G. Cross On Date: 2000-10-14 20:14:50 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Man and the Elements

                                                                                    The night is cold & black & bleak and hides the shelter that I seek. The wind wails wildly through the trees to rape the last few clinging leaves, and swirls the snow around my feet that turns to unforgiving sleet, to sting my eyes & blur my sight uncompromising bites of white. I curse the sky for winter's blight my cries strained echoes in the night. Just fruitless sounds for no one's ears. There's no one here..so no one hears. But yet the wind begins to die. Did God of Winter hear my cry?? First sweet relief I've had in hours, but my elation quickly sours. For in the next breath that I take the sleeping wind too soon awakes. With new resolve & reckless rage his war with me again will wage. Alas a war i'm sure to lose an unfair war i did not choose, for Mother Nature's stronger than a weather-beaten mortal man. But still i trudge.. face to the wind. My own resolve will not give in. I may be but a mortal man, but I'll wage war as best I can. Until I reach my journey's end, the wind my will shall never bend. And though my hands are turning numb to winter's rage I'll not succumb.             

Copyright © October 2000 William G. Cross


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