*Editors Note- This was an assignment for ENG 220, Introduction to Creative Writing. This is my poem “You’ll never understand” from my Poetry Unit Manuscript that consisted of three poems. The full manuscript is available for download at the bottom of the page.

You’ll Never Understand 

You’ll never understand 

Midnight in the Rocky Mountains in Winter

The crisp air that burns your lungs with cold

The crunch of snow under your soft feet

The darkness of the night secretly brought to life

There is nothing in the world like laying down in 3 feet of snow

Gazing at the sky

Silence so loud you can’t hear anything 

Else outside of the sky

Do you know you can hear the sky?

You’ll never understand

What I feel in my heart

As it quietly slows to blend in with the landscape

Me, hoping it would stop altogether

So the pounding in my veins would silence 

And I could finally hear all of what the night is saying

My mind always thinks of one of my favorite lyrics 

“In the winter night sky, ships are sailing”

I lie still picturing the ships 

Did you know that you can see ships in the sky?

You’ll never understand 

What I see in the stars

As galaxies shape and bend

As the moon lunges out to light up the night

And all creations bow to the might of darkness

The sun is shoed away 

And I wait for the real beauty to crawl forward

The secrets the stars hold could shatter humanity

Or bring all of mankind together 

The stars, for me, are my home, my rock

They tell me what’s right and what’s true

While passing on secrets they store in the ether 

Have you ever whispered a secret to the sky?

You’ll never understand

How sure I am 

That one day I’ll get lost in the stars, in the mountains, in the snow on a cold winter night

And I’ll forget to pull myself out

Do you understand that?

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