Love And Loneliness

Love And Loneliness

Love

Loneliness

Love and Loneliness

(A poem with borrowed lines)

My love with her was a beautiful thing

Set to be sealed with a diamond ring

She was the light of my life; she shined so bright

But that light was put out on one fateful night

Now I sit in the graveyard, cold and lowly

Crying for one who is now lying lonely *

And as life slides past and I remain alone

The cold grip of loneliness chills me to the bone

Who will bury me when I die? **

When I'm gone, who's there to cry?

Some people may say love's a game meant to amuse

But in time, we find it's a game we always lose

* Line borrowed from "Lost Jimmy Whelan" by an unknown author

** Line borrowed from "Wabanaki Song" translated by Charles G. Leland