Sometimes I feel so empty and alone, <br />So yearning to reach out and hold someone, <br />So desperate to hear a friendly voice, <br />So hungry for the love of anyone, <br />So afraid I might be turned away, <br />I hide my arms from those I long to hold, <br />From all the strangers in the world I live, <br />from all the magic their strange lives unfold. <br />I yearn to go to them, I try, <br />But fears, like monsters hands appear--and then <br />The fears begin to pound my wounded heart <br />And I retreat from strangers, cursing them. <br /> Untitled You faded first while still before my eyes, <br />Then one by one the doors began to close. <br />Uncaring keys locked you and me apart, <br />Malicious fate-- so used to love disposed. Now and then-- through key holes or their cracks, <br />You came, and walls of stone melted away, <br />And in those moments when I had you back, <br />Tomorrow looked with envy at today. Last night you came in my remembering, <br />And all the pain provoking me inside <br />Just disappeared, and left serenity, <br />Fate grumbled and an ecstasy replied. Reality is jealous and won't let <br />Remembering be in my heart for long, <br />So while I love, and while my heart is safe, <br />I want to die, to lose you just once more.<br /><br />Rita Sasiene<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-39/
