How to love - do you know!

Could I have loved you
for just one moment more.

Could I have given you
just one more kiss to prove my love

Could I have been there
for you when you needed me - a minute and more

Could I. Could I. Could I.
Could I have done that?
I could. And I would when I know
the sweet moon would not waste
even one more ray of his moonshine
on someone, anyone, who didn’t know how to love!

utterly empty emptiness

emptiness washed up ashore last night
like no message in a bottle
rocked by waves of choppy waters
she swayed endlessly
her fangs desperate to tether somewhere
anywhere, in fact
the seething anger of battling alone
slowly gave way to
trickling desolation of reality
...He loves me
He loves me not
He loves me
He loves me not...
she passed time plucking imaginary petals
as the storm raged ravenously
devouring every speckle of sanity there was
until emptiness was left utterly empty
and then she rested in her cage on wet sand.

happiness precluded

at arms length
lay my happiness
and yet the vast veneer 
of my inflamed ego
precluded me from its attainment