Listen

Hearken with sadness to voices
proclaiming awkward choices,
expounding their personal needs
to be held or loosed; caged or freed.

Listen with anguish to songs
lamenting sweet love's wrongs
informing of human creeds
to help or take; give or greed.

Ponder with sorrow the poems
protesting of lovers alone. © rac

DARKNESS

Darkness only, absence of everything
icy, lonely, nothing to sing,
aching, reaching, praying: please;
alone, frightened, who hears, who sees?

Human, not meant for loneliness, needing,
in empty night calling, pleading,
but no one to help, to understand,
to kiss away tears, to hold your hand

Time: the fire can no longer be lit,
we love just to lose, die bit by bit
there's no spark left, no tear to cry,
we're born to give love; left alone
....why?©
rac