A Prayer Unanswered

Waking I find

Another chill encrusted day

Awaits me

Where I shall walk alone in step of time

To the blighted rhythm

Of what must be

And the looming shadows

Of what might have been

My only solace

Comes of looking back

Upon the horizon of

Memories past

Where the fluxing tapestry

Of life and chance

Carried you soft and safe

Into my arms

And I held you

And you held me

And for a time

No wind of change

Could bear us sway

But somehow…

Some dreadful way how

My eyes left the beauty of yours

My arms reached out

For ambitions of pointless return

And in deafened silence

You slipped from me

For I held you not

And now I am left to search

Across the rolling linen waves

Of life and consequence

Holding hope that

Fate will grant me pardon

And bring you to me

Once again

But I age in waiting

I tire of hoping

I stammer in broken steps

For each night your vigil kept

Brings me aside my bed

To utter yet again

A prayer unanswered