Never Looking Back
Never looking back
We pass each other without speaking
We look at each other- blindly
Loneliness crying out of our eyes
But we keep on, silently.
Each one of us is carrying a load
Each one suffering, utterly slowed
Each one is going down, down on this road.
See there, friends just passed an embrace
We used to walk this way, do you still remember?
You used to look forward to my coming
In the midst of spring blossom, here’s the sorrow of fall.
And the recognition that it’s all over.
Today, between us came a wall.
Now, never to return, life has all
But passed. That is fall.
No one to give a nod, no one to give a hug.
You and me, through this isolation we plod.
It's fall. It's all flawed.