A World Without Love

Touch me

hold me

take me in your arms

I am cold

the icy hands of regret 

have taken hold of my heart

 

Thaw me with your love

warm me with the fire of your passion

breathe new life into my soul

lest I drift away forever

become lost

in a sea of despair

that never ends

 

I wear my loneliness

like an invisible clock

my sorrow

as a coat of arms

I walk through this world

seen

yet unnoticed

wanted

yet despised

 

I search the eyes of strangers

looking for my true love

but they just stare blindingly past me

oblivious to my desperate need

my pain

my longing

 

Why must my heart deceive me

why must I always long

for that which will never be

reach out in hope

just to have my dreams crushed

shattered into a million fragments

that now lay in a shattered mess at my feet

 

I am mocked

ridiculed and tormented

My desires lay in ashes all around me

incinerated by hateful men

destroyed by those who live in the darkness

who prey on the souls of the lost

 

Only God is my hope

and I hold onto Him in desperation

to His promise

His light

His love

 

I sit among the ashes of my longings

among shattered dreams

jagged reminders

of all that could have been

 

Like a minefield of shattered glass

they imprison me

prevent me from moving forward

from escaping my world 

of brokenness and pain

 

Tentatively

I try to step into a new tomorrow

into a world where hope and promise

are still alive

but with every step I take

I am cut

by the jagged edge of fear

that refuses to leave me

 

Fresh pain erupts within me

I fall in silent surrender

as the blood of despair

once again starts to flow from my heart

 

I give up

no longer caring

no longer searching

I lay in silent defeat

knowing that I will walk

forever alone

through a world that is unseeing

uncaring

just another lonely soul

wandering through a world

without love

 

Reviews

[Leslie Philibert]

a fine poem that brings together personal sadness and belief..

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you

[Distant horizons]

What a sad companion those icy hands of regret make. A wonderful tale, etched in sadness, summed up perfectly with the words, I lay in silent defeat.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you.

[Overrated-World]

wonderful and sweet

[John B]

I can really relate to everything you've written. It really is hard these days to find that feeling that lasts. I do like how this was written as well. Definitely touching.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Ahmad Cox]

So elegant and beautiful yet sorrowful at the same time.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you :)

[Jordan's Back]

This piece has a Shakespearean Elegance a Romantic Tragedy of vastness Permiating to the deepest core of the soul. Another Speechless write.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you :) I'm glad it spoke to you

[Night]

...there's always tomorrow...:)

[Carolann Dowsett]

True :)