unrequited love

her former love is gone

frigid wet falling from an empty sky of night

each bursting drop shocks my freezing scalp

outside her reach i am forever far 

no hold to last, no feel of soft

scorned by warmth of my lover's hearth

i look through the window of her soul and see the yellow of a fire

while winter's beast, frigid air bites into my nakedness

i find myself outside her love 

love is heat, alone is cold,

rejection is worse than cold

my empty hands cannot bear the grit of rock and ice

sticks and moss make no blanket

the wild thorns, the roughness of the night

the hollow sliver of a moon mocks my trembling chill

i look through the bars of my caged eyes searching for relief

i peer through time and stolen space confined

she lies within, in soft velvet blankets draped,

her breasts nestled in the down of felt, 

her scented skin, her moistened lips of warmth 

surrounded by lovely rounded hips 

urges my starved heart's impoundment,

begs and yearns for her womb, 

my ego's pride is shameless

it grovels drooling like scorned garlands of my love,

hanging empty from her nakedness

in my banished place, drifting from her den, 

cast out by unintended offense wrecked,

guilt by deed supposed

selfishness imposed performed, 

her spurn's requited right 

on only love i bleed, i place my fickle hope, 

i desperate reach, dare restore attempt

like a swimmer in his sleep,

i thrash in desperate moves, 

i futile make for the surface top,

lose my breath i gasp,

her skin i yearn to stroke,

with gentle touch i may not hold again

in this plight i struggle hard against the wall of nothingness 

i let the rain fall against my dying will,

each quiver of ebbing breath, the trembling of my flesh

i yield in vanquished flame, 

no longer will i fight

the wind it howls with greater force, 

it sweeps away my final wish to live