Circular Despondency Poem by Rick Elpers

To be weary of desire
Letting go of it all
Becomes also a burden

The empty life crowded
With activity fills
But a moment

Never the heart
Shows the embattled
Scar until the dust settles

Mending healing filling
Holes invisible
Takes a lifetime

Becomes goal after goal
Longing to find
And keep the elusive mate

Is above all
While treading
The ocean that makes an island

Not of refuge
But of disparity
Against the desired one