You will never be alone, you hear so deep
a sound when autumn comes. Yellow
pulls across the hills and thrums,
or the silence after lightening before it says
its names- and then the clouds' wide-mouthed
apologies. You were aimed from birth:
you will never be alone. Rain
will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,
long aisles- you never heard so deep a sound,
moss on rock, and years. You turn your head-
that's what the silence meant: you're not alone.
The whole wide world pours down.
Assurance
William Stafford
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Poem topics: autumn, birth, rain, world, head, long, hear, yellow, silence, deep, wide, sound, alone, never, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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