Night Vigil …A Poem of Us

I turn to stone

Yet somehow
Endure
Being left alone

To riddle out
The mystery
Of us.

I lie awake
And picture
Your features.

Trying
To understand
This life
We’re leading
Leaving
More questions
Than answers
To my pleading.

I finally fall
Into fitful sleep
Shielding you
From things
Dark and bleak...

Keeping you safe
From wind and rain,

Holding you close
In my arms again.