borderline

Here where the ocean meets the land

Please will you hold my hand

And help me to bear

All of this sorrow

Here within a moment that is just ablaze

With the heavy weight

Of things unspoken

Will you stay with me awhile

In the silence

Bearing witness to the night

And even though the day

Surrounds us

And to you the world seems bright

Will you recognise

How very much I need you here

Beside me

In a world where this abject sense

Of all pervading emptiness

Has made this fragile human heart

Hunger silently

For the sweetness

Of another human being’s touch