Companion

Sometimes when the night is so dark, it comes
Still before arrival
Powerful in presence
Keeping company with the lonely
Stirring restlessly in the nights

Bringing the scents of far away
Feeling of other souls
Awareness of other places
The Knowledge you are not
Alone

Reminding of the vastness
The enormity of this world
The countless numbers (of people)
Numbers unimaginable
Should make one feel small

But the breeze that blows
Singles all and one the same
Living, trying, day and days
Lives simple, complex,
so enormous one can’t imagine

All get passed by the Wind
Touched
Little pieces taken
Passed on to the next
A little more
Swirling and blowing
Balancing with the wild
Sweetening through the leaves
Long salty blusters over oceans
Rolling over hills
Threading forest pines
musky smell of sap
Warmed by the glow of moonlight
Sculpting the clouds
Dominant song of the night
Hushing all others
Demanding attention
Howling, swaying, clattering
Rocking the giants rooting
deep in the earth
Swishing the boughs
Dancing the shadows
Stirring the night
shattering the stillness so complete
Interrupting the darkness

The company, soothing and powerful
Finds the lonely
And comforts them off to sleep