Lonelyhearts

(Lonelyhearts, from Fearless Moral Inventory, by Juliet A. Wright, copyright 2010, all rights reserved.)  Lonelyhearts

His eyes follow her around the room

Day after day

Watching her dive deeper into her gloom

Wasting life away

He knows

He knows all her secrets

Her darkest thoughts translucent

She’s just not getting it at all

He’s wondering if she’ll ever get it right

Lonely-hearts will you start tonight?

Wondering if she’ll ever see the Light inside

Herself.

He watches her waiting by the phone

But it never rings.

Examines her e-dates endlessly

Searching for her king

He sees

Miss Lonely-hearts out of luck tonight

You might as well give up the fight

Turn off the phone

Turn out the light.

He’s wondering if she’ll ever get it right

Lonely-hearts will you start tonight?

Wondering if she’ll ever see the Light inside

Herself.

Warm blue eyes

Long to kiss her

And console her

As he whispers

From his gilded frame.

You’re looking for something

That doesn’t exist

There is no prince or domestic bliss

The American Dream is just that

A dream

Sealed with a kiss.

He watches as she wrestles with her thoughts

Kicking and screaming like a child distraught

Not wanting to believe the awful truth

He’s wondering if she’ll ever get it right

Lonely-hearts will you start tonight?

Wondering if she’ll ever see the Light inside

Herself.

His eyes follow her around the room

Day after day

Watching her dive deeper into her gloom

Wasting life away

He sees

Her table is still set for two

Cheap china and steamy dreams of you

Oh how hope dies hard…..

He’s wondering if she’ll ever get it right

Lonely-hearts will you start tonight?

Wondering if she’ll ever see the Light inside

Herself.