"Stranded"

© Alla Abdin 2003

It is hard when losing
Your heart
--Life seems so empty--

Everything freezes.
Everything vanishes.
But that ache pounding
Hard in your mind

Tears are not the answers
When the pain never leaves
Sweet surrender becomes a choice
But never it is yours to make

You scream out loud
--Hoping someone to hear you--
But who will answer the call of despair
If all are deaf, out of your grasp

And you sink into nothingness
In hope to be forgotten
--'Don't leave' whispers you hear them say--

Should you listen?
Or maybe go back?

Then you find yourself standing still
With the ache and pain.

You have no where to go.