Lonely

I wonder where you are tonight?

What your thoughts are?

What your needs are?

What you feel inside

        but learned so long ago

    to keep hidden deep within?

I wonder if all the tears you shed

    have your feelings locked inside them,

    and if those tears washed away your pain

    when sadness filled the empty space

    your tears left inside you?

I wonder why you try so hard

    to believe that nothing matters –

    why you let no one beside you

    to wipe away the tears you shed?

I wonder why I can’t be with you

    to comfort you though the lonely days –

    to comfort you through the lonely nights?

    But only my thoughts can be beside you –

    and since I cannot wipe away your tears

    I too shall shed tears for being lonely –

        it is this lonely night we share.