Gravity
Is pulling down with all
The weight of dread and sleep
Is darkening the sky
And pushing us ever deeper.

Lightning
Rumbles in the ground
Grey behind the veil
Of the dark of rain and night
Flashing like bones against the sky.

Tonight, I cannot sleep.
Again.
I think about you, and what you want,
And I realize
I do not know you.
I never can,
Though I give my life to try.

Your love is like the lightning
Brilliant and furious
Veiled grey behind the fog of storm
Gives light to  the dark
And lights my valley, my home
Ablaze every August.
But it is dangerous to get too close.