Essential

Love is a need

As essential as air

And when it is absent

We stumble like the breathless

Feeling despair

That drags upon on us so heavily

Surely there is a love

We summon from within

But more special is the love we feel

For those souls who are kin

Whose very light and fire draws us towards them

Caressing our skin with goose bumps

Standing hairs on end

As its electric call vibrates

Enlivening the air around us

Like soft kisses of angels

On skin

And when those around us

Who understand not the ways of love

Deny it

Turning upon us eyes of vacancy

What way is there to show

The depths to which

A heart can ache

When faced with the negation

Of the very purpose

For its existence :

Connection

And so we falter

And find ourselves again lost

When the cost of blocked hearts

Forces empathy so far from us

Our hopes then turn to dust

As amongst the ashes we lie

Begging for mercy

To empty blue skies