Lament

Maybe I will some days feel so alone

Maybe some days it will feel impossible to pick up the phone

To those I love

Maybe (sometimes often) fear will stop me

Being all I can be

Doing all I need to

Maybe some days dark clouds will cover the sun

And the sunlight of any kind of love will feel so far away

And God only knows I have known such desolate days

And yet deep inside my soul now

I can never forget

That love lies sleeping somewhere

And often it surprises me with its uprising

Like a flood that bursts the banks of a dam

Often when I stroke your fur

Or look deep into your eyes

As I feel the solid and never still

Beating of your darling heart

Then it is I know what love is

In those precious moments

I know what it is to ache with such tenderness

For someone and something

That my being expands to embrace life

So let me be grateful for this

For a heart that can feel

And for lungs

That on the brighter days

Can sing

The soul’s lament

For ears that in magical moments

Can hear

The joyful soaring of angel wings

For even though there are times

I become#

Almost completely undone by loss

There are also times

When love surprises me

Unawares

Releasing my aching heart

From the heavy burden

Of its earthly cares.