A song of trauma and isolation

So far away

I cannot touch your face

Or feel your embrace

And dark echoes grow of longing

Here I am alone

My heart growing cold as a stone

That I must take closer to the warmth of fire

For I cannot bear to lose myself in this

Unresolved longing

Isn’t it just another form of death

Or deep denial?

There must be another way to connect

With someone who is close

But how to break out of

The prison of this isolation

Negation of my own urges for life and happiness

I am growing so tired

Getting negatively wired

With the pain of things I cannot change

Realising that even I do not blame myself

I must now, take the responsibility

Seeking the way to come closer

Change this pattern of

Absence that is nothing but the repeat

Of the broken refrain

Of a very old song

Sung for far too long

Of pain, trauma, loss and isolation