Date:         Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:24:44 -0330
 
 
 
LONELINESS
 
Copyright Mary J. Farrell, 1993, Ravenettes Incorporated.
 
 
 
Part I
 
His ancient gaze sweeps the skies
for what he searches, he may not know.
Does it matter?  So he flies
and coldly sees the world below.
 
So many thoughts, so much old pain,
of hate, betrayal, a trace of love?
Of his companions he thinks again,
hardens his heart and circles above.
 
 
Part II
 
The music blares and the dancers swirl,
She sits alone in a crowded space
Drinking "wine" she contemplates,
a vacant look on a lovely face.
 
Memories of dances gone before
of lovers..ah, but she knows the one
she'd like to see come through that door
is questing off to find the sun.
 
 
Part III
 
He paints in yellows, and fiery reds
of images from a distant past.
In a warehouse blocked from the morning's rays,
he paints his suns and tries to fast.
 
A mortal's face comes to his mind.
Intense emotions start to stir.
He thinks about the years behind,
but once again he thinks of her.
 
 
Part IV
 
She works with care and graceful skill
at a job few others contemplate.
In a room of death, she works and will
find the cause that closed their fate.
 
In a darkened building, still as night
she thinks of a soul, a man apart,
from life .. but love?  For him she fights,
and thinks with her mind and not her heart.