Two Poems by Catherine Noonan

Two Poems by Catherine Noonan

A Night

Tired as if about to die but

Sleep, any sleep without you rests nothing and so

I wake soundly all night

A pounding missing of you taking me into the dawn

Where I look off and see only my own misery and yet

Curse when someone interrupts my melancholy.

Safe

Indifference to you will never come from me

I must fake it, walk nonchalantly by when really

I couldn’t care more

You will always be there; felt

A sad silence or a terrible truth

And although I pray daily to be freed from loving what has ended

I am too well bonded with not letting go and it is this

That makes you never forgotten.

Author’s Bio: Catherine Noonan is an Australia-based poet.