Page 38 - June 2021

Poems

Longing
In your company I forget the despondency

That underlines my daily pursuits,

Yet when I am alone, I find myself,

In a vast mist of solitude.
The center of me is always and eternally

A terrible pain,

A search for something beyond,

What the world contain.
I have always longed for something

Divine and infinite,

The paradisiacal vision of God,

I do not find it.

I have sought love,
Little of this I have achieved;

So far as possible,

Up towards the heaven it leads.

But echoes of cries of pain,

Reverberate in my heart,
And always pity for mankind brings me back to earth.

I try to eradicate suffering,