Rain, rain, fall today.
Hide the tears that wash away my joy.
Thunder roll and mask my sobs.
Lightening strike and blind them to my pain.

Death, sweet death…
My heart lies in your dark bosom.
Why must you have taken my joy away,
So little I have known lost to your jealous embrace.

© 20 August 2014, by D. Denise Dianaty

Original artwork, mixed media drawing, 2015, by D. Denise Dianaty

This poem appears in My Life In Poetry – An ebook of original poems, much of which is autobiographical, composed by D. Denise Dianaty, published January 2015. Find your copy at http://a.co/gbWNVUb. Always FREE with KindleUnlimited on Amazon.