The Wind

Have you ever heard the wind go....
"WOOOOOOO?"
it's a pitiful sound I hear.
It seems to chill you through and through
with a strange and speechless fear.
It's the voice of night that broods outside
when folks are still asleep
and many and many a time I cried
 to the darkness brooding far and wide
over the land and the deep.

 "Oh who do you want, oh lonely wind,
that you wail the whole night through?"

 and the wind would say in its meaningful way....
"YOUOOOO."

My momma told me years ago, when I was a little tad,
    that when the wind went wailing so,
   somebody had been bad.
And then when I was tucked in bed,
where I had been sent,
with the blankets pulled around my head
I'd think of what my mother had said.

   "And who's been bad today?"
            I'd ask of the wind that harshly blew

and the wind would say in its ghostly way.....

"YOUOOOO!!"
 

Author Unknown to Me
But My Grandma put the fear God in me with this Poem too!

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