What pain to the heart

who yearns to be part

of a life meant to be

shared with another

but paired not together.

And despair for the soul

yearning

burning

sinking

into solitude's hole.

Shivering

alone

and cold

where light overshadows not

the pit's overcoming fear.

When separation, desperation

and the pang of rejection

grows near.

And love is caged, forgotten.

Vowed never to be opened

as loneliness appears.

And then the rain cries tears.

1999