Interlude

INTERLUDE by JOHN M. ARRIBAS When an event confines you to a quiet, lonely solitude You are sentenced to an unending feelings of lassitude The ongoing nothingless wallowed me in endless jejune And slowly eroded the passions and joy that I once knew I have resolved my future just to play out the game To relive moments of joys, over n over, is not the same Unconsciously, I began to recede from joyful activity Hiding my loneliness, hoping time would set me free Every tomorrow, like yesterday, a fruitless trial I needed something, someone to cause me to smile Suddenly realizing there must be others like me Victims of losses, surviving, clinging to memories I began searching, hoping to find a similar soul Keep me from plunging down this debilitating hole I found someone that has unyielding ties to yore And wants to recapture feelings known before Alas, never the same, too many emotions strained Difficult to replace reveries so painfully gained I won’t replace her loss, nor will she replace mine We’ll comfort each other in what’s left of our time