indignant –

compassion starved from

insatiable insensitivity…

 

how can there be justification

for callous abandon?

 

all too often it seems we

close doors,

build walls,

create barricades –

manipulate emotions to protect our hearts from hurt,

yet find,

in the end,

our – selves – starving for a touch –

gentle caress…

 

friendship –

sweet reprieve for our emaciated souls –

never realized!