Longing Poem by James Casey

Longing

I have a longing deep within my heart
To forget you as I have known
To leave behind all remembrance and feeling
Then know my love will always be alone

For it is love that to which I speak
For being out of love having once known
Is not unlike having a beating heart
To warm my blood yet have it moan

And life, what is life without love?
To be without one is to be with out the other
Where there was once a heart in me
Has been replaced by emptiness, no order

An emptiness that fills my every day and night
This emptiness eats away at my very soul
A soul tormented by some demon from hell
Losing you was like a stocking filled with coal

Jim 1961