From Afar Poem by John I Nash

Love evades me, as a dove that cannot be held, only admired from afar. I have reached out to touch its purity many times, only to see it fly away into the sky and hide behind the dark clouds of life.
I have traveled many long roads that go nowhere and sailed to many faraway shores looking for something I feel is no longer there, yet I have witnessed those who have found the allusive dove and made it their own.
A great many years have come and gone and time has not stood still, now my destiny lies not in my future but in my past. What once I asked of mortal man I now ask of God, at first as a humble request and then with total despair.
O HEAR me Lord, do you not see my plight? Love has abandoned me all these many nights!
The heavens do not succumb to the ravings of a mad man, Penance not needed, to be told; the pain of love lost is the curse of hell tenfold.

copyright: c 8/25/16