Why do you look so sad, my lovely one?
The world seems cold and dark to me today.
Don’t you have hours that you feel this way?
I do. Such feelings cannot be outrun.
What say you that we lay and rest a bit?
The restlessness I feel’s my own, I fear:
And though you’ll touch me, I will not be here.
Still, we can try – that much you must admit –
Where are your thoughts right now, if you can say?
They’re on the world itself, so full of dread:
‘Tween what-should-be and what-we-have-instead.
Oh, wow. That’s more than I can hug away —
We lay and listened to the morning birds;
For some things can’t be fixed by deeds or words.
(“Sketches – 28” – 3-19-2017)
Beautiful and sad at the same time.
There are lot of things in this life that cannot be fixed.
beautiful, sad,and true.
best of all you were together in your separate” laying and listening”. Each felt in their own way yet shared with the other in that state of feeling making it a loving moment, a fortunate moment.
This is so relatable and so captivatingly expressed! My heart skipped a beat reading this!