Love's Loneliness

something savoured this loneliness the week you were gone your absence greeted by the bali bamboo bell by the door this dusk something taken for granted until it sang your love your warmth that it caused a tide in the heart a flood of contentment ying yang pleasure absence makes the heart grow fonder the moon too peered down this side of kitchen as i washed the dish the water swirling in its light distilling a loneliness that inspired verses this night i imagined myself on a ship that sailed off to a land where love abound, you around - that you were just just inches away that cold patch of bed that i left untouched inspired by Love's Loneliness Old fathers, great-grandfathers, Rise as kindred should. If ever lover's loneliness Came where you stood, Pray that Heaven protect us That protect your blood. The mountain throws a shadow, Thin is the moon's horn; What did we remember Under the ragged thorn? Dread has followed longing, And our hearts are torn. William Butler Yeats