2003 (3)

Heart of my world
The loneliest place on Earth
I have walked here too long
Alone.

Will I ever know joy again
Wrapped luxuriously in the arms
of a man, fair and strong.

Or am I condemned by time
And shyness to pine for one
who will never know my name.

I do not fear the future.

I fear facing it alone.




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I look for a balm,
a salve to heal me within

I seek from outside myself
To heal the soul within

Failing in my fear, my flight,
That is the only within that shall
provide true succour.

I seek someone else to tend to wounds
That I do not have the strength to show them.

That is bound for failure.

In partnership is wholeness, true
But to be in such means knowing one's Self.

Me...meet myself.