Unattainable Desire

Copyright © March 15, 2002 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
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I try so hard to understand
while this big wheel
that is our world
keeps turning round and round.

As it turns so fast,
many are swept away,
never to endure
life’s grueling little trials.

I try to understand why the old,
live longer than their bodies
are designed to function
but in a pain so great.

I try to understand why
the innocence of child,
must endure injustices
of our sometimes so cruel world.

I try to understand how
hunger and poverty could prevail
in such a fruitful world.  

I try to understand how
love can be born 
only to die all to soon.

I see the things I want,
objects of desire,
never to be known
or held in hand.

You were one unattainable desire I desired,
if only for a time, 
though this desire does remain
somewhere deep within,

but I have let it go, 
as I watched you go
to where I do not know.

As you stood there,
before your steps
took you from me,

my eyes did feast 
upon your heavenly beauty, 
such a thing to behold, 
both without and within.

The things I longed to hold,
all held there in you.
but the time, it never came,

the emptiness,
the longing,
the desire unfulfilled,

as you teased my heart
and left me lonely
and alone, but once more.

The dreams of we,
never to be,
never to see,
never to hold,
but in my mind.