Starfish
Starfish
I woke up this morning, my heart was filled with doubt.
I dreamed last night of love I learned I lived too long without.
An act of desperation in the midst of all my sorrow.
I stepped out in the rain and I cried out to tomorrow.
Why is it that you torment so? When I can clearly see.
Though you wait for someone, you do not wait for me.
I see lovers loving as they go about their way.
Still there is no one for me, at least not for today.
Like sun that hides behind a cloud or dreams just out of reach.
I'm stranded here in yesterday like a starfish on the beach.
Loneliness that lives in me surviving on my sorrow.
Alone I stood there in the rain and cried out to tomorrow.
Edwin C Hofert
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