Impossible

The you I need

Is very far from me

Living his own life

Dreaming his own dreams

Feeling his own suffering

Unable to respond

While longing to be responded to

Wake up

Both of us

What is love?

If not the extension into someone else’s reality

If only long enough to gain a glimpse

Of what lies hidden

Deep inside the silence

Wrapped up in my own world

I can care for you

But I cannot live your life

Or even know your pain

If you wont take the risk of opening your heart to me

Don’t you know we all have pain

But the real shame lies

In our inability to deeply reflect upon

How our own desire and will

Can cripple those

Whose burden it is not to carry

So love if it is to be deep and true

Must make all kinds of allowances

But most of all

Set each other’s soul free of demands

Impossible for us to meet