A Bridge Too Far Gone

How can she be so close by and yet I am so alone?

Her warm and comforting body lies so near my side

Yet the extreme gap between our once united hearts

Has become wider than any canyon or natural divide.

An impassable structure of a nature whose

Existence lies solely at my feet; with my fault.

If I paved the Long Road of Solitude to her heart

Which of us allocated the labour and materials?

Once she praised my loyalty to the human cause.

Once she understood why I allowed my heart

To soar, journey and quest among those souls

Who dwelt in canyons of humanity’s negligence.

The foul pit that society casts the unwanted ones,

Solely because some where, some how or someone

Broke them so that they served no further use

And so cast them down to wallow in darkness.

How can she give reason for building such obstruction

Between my heart and hers, a love I risked all for?

For can she not see that those who I reach out to

Need help finding the passage out of the lonely abyss?

Could my heart have loved so true and yet so wrongly?

Can all the scars and wounds to my soul be all for naught?

Is she blind to the memory of reality that not so long ago

She was one to whom I gave light t0 escape darkness?

She has changed, in so many ways more beautiful

And grown into the exquisite creature my heart

Continually yearns for; the only lust for my passions.

Perhaps I should have changed as well…

And lessened myself.