Shivers In My Soul

Shivers In My Soul The rain is falling soft tonight a cold chill fills the air. I search the sky for stars above not a single one is there. Remembered times, forgotten rhymes from nights I lost control. From deep inside the tears I cried like shivers in my soul. With thoughts of yesterdays gone by I wonder if it mattered. All the dreams I used to dream, I watched as they all shattered. A shell of who I hoped to be I remember me back then. No one knows the strength it took for me to rise again. Like a shadow in the night I felt you touching me. My tears stained the paper, you are my poetry. The life I lived so long ago the pain and the despair. How I tried and how I cried but there was no one there. My pen it touched the paper like a lover with my fingers. The tragedy of me, and how the memory lingers. The wonder why of days gone by it's been that way so long. The choosing and the losing and things that went so wrong. Times I thought I'd lose my mind I feared I'd go insane. Though they're all behind me now the scars all still remain. My future looking bright it seems I've not been here before. The man I know I used to be doesn't live here anymore. Like a shadow in the night I felt you touching me. My tears stained the paper, you are my poetry. Edwin C Hofert