Distant echo

Here amidst the noise and chatter of your plans

I hear the distant echo of my soul

receeding

along a corridor

of years

as I feel the life force

draining from me

It seems for too long

I longed

sucked into the revolving orbit of your life

like a darkened satellite

hungry for the Sun

of your love

to shine

in my direction

But now I break entirely

open

with the realisation

I cannot bear to be

this empty and dark any more

or else

what am I

really living for

if not my own life

I had enough of your trouble and strife

so many years before

so excuse me if I sit this one out

for my soul has grown weary

of the hurting