A Prayer Unanswered

Waking I find Another chill encrusted day Awaits me Where I shall walk alone in step of time To the blighted rhythm Of what must be And the looming shadows Of what might have been My only solace Comes of looking back Upon the horizon of Memories past Where the fluxing tapestry Of life and chance Carried you soft and safe Into my arms And I held you And you held me And for a time No wind of change Could bear us sway But somehow… Some dreadful way how My eyes left the beauty of yours My arms reached out For ambitions of pointless return And in deafened silence You slipped from me For I held you not And now I am left to search Across the rolling linen waves Of life and consequence Holding hope that Fate will grant me pardon And bring you to me Once again But I age in waiting I tire of hoping I stammer in broken steps For each night your vigil kept Brings me aside my bed To utter yet again A prayer unanswered