Please read down the first column, then read down the second column...
Feeling Tender...
These tender feelings Sweet pain How can we let it depart? It haunts us | The present moment Stings Opening memories Of being alone |
Memories of love Trapped In Memories Of those whom we now miss | See anyone at all In their heart Those whom they hold dearest Are seen too |
Contrasting our aloneness By the love seen shared By strangers Hurts | The tender sore spots Call forth tears Relief from our pain Found in more pain |
Holding what we lost No release Eternal moment Wrought from agony | The sheltering past Spares us from The present Bewildering moment |
Self throttled Abstinence from life Allows No one else to reject us | Full throttled Headlong rush into love Fear of hope We crash in despair |
Held in our own arms We wait for the moment When pain Departs again | Tears withheld Are drowning us With their silent cries Of unshed sorrow |