Longing for Certainty



Nameless face after faceless name
Either emotionless or always finding someone to blame
Other than themselves.
Predictable to no end
Why must they feel they have to pretend?
I wish they'd show me the true them.

All I want
Is what everyone else wants
To share my unshared secrets
To laugh until the dawn
To be held when the unwanted tears fall
But for some reason this has been lost to me
And the desire seems unquenchable.

Years of strolling past the nameless faces
Years of friends who come and then disappear without a trace
It's hard to discern who will truly stay...
I long for certainty
For company
For assurance
That I won't be alone for long.

For it's been too long.


© April 8th, 1999


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