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Far Away Dream

Love is a far away dream

A distant boat on a horizon

Hurt and loneliness

Ache in agony

Hopelessness glides

Slowly across the waves

In search of a peaceful shore

And my longing swells

In a restless tide

As I drift out to sea.

Despair becomes a dirge

Dripping in melancholy

Drenched with my weighty tears

From so much sadness

Crying beneath the sky

Validation eludes me

As solitude cages

My smile in a prison cell

A jail face appears

Where my dignity used to be.

In your space is darkness

Absence too great to measure

Hollows out my happiness

Laughter long gone

Runs away an orphan

My head in my hands

Echoes weeping in silence

Your lover’s kiss is

A foreign object

Fallen from my lips.

Nighttime now abides with me

And sleep eludes

A lost child of innocence

Your embrace gone

I wrap myself

Around in a blanket of

Worn out wishes

Affection replaced by

Your icy rejection

Love is a far away dream.

Copyright © 2024 Charles Edward York

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