A Need

Black storm clouds sweep across the sky No where does one see a ray of light Lost are all hopes all dreams Pain no time can ever erase Loneliness like a festering sore A crying out for life, a need for love A need to be held as never before To be wanted and cherished To be all to someone, not an adjunct To have four walls that are one’s own Familiar objects place and space Not a puppet controlled by strings Not an island one one’s own Tired of oneself scared to start again Madness within breaking through the flesh A need for passion to inter-connect Come cherish the rose in bloom Before it withers and dies Like a book unread and a song unsung Useless waste swept away by time (Poem written a long time ago).