THE WIND'S LONGING
- sgmcinerney600
- May 18
- 1 min read
I had not thought before of the wind's longing,
how it always seems in seach of something lost,
like a cloud set down on a green hill at evening,
or a letter trembling in a young woman's hand,
going about the world in search of this one thing,
day after day, year after year, as ghosts might do;
setting chairs cartwheeling from cafes in the street,
tearing down powerlines, lifting up roofs,
refusing to countenance any secret places
where the source of its deep sorrowing might hide.
But whispering, too, the deepest secrets of its heart,
sand blown along the pier mixed with sea-mist,
playing around the faces of summer girls
who flick boys from their hair, lick salt from their lips;
a feather, a petal, a seagull, the seeds of milkweed
blown with their shadows gently around the earth,
all inheriting the wind's own yearning,
all longing, but never quite able to find
this one thing, lost at the wind's beginning.
I had not thought of the wind's longing until today.
SG McInerney