Stuck in Stillness While the World is Changing

Am I doomed to walk alone

Forever one and never known?

For those who come, I don’t return

And so am forced to forever burn

Among the effigies of my books.

To content myself with solid looks.

To laugh and cringe at what I watch

Where all are paired to single swatch.

Am I just cruel and beauty blind?

Or are my thoughts stuck in my mind?

For one I had is ever gone

And left me naught but mournful song.

So now forever I will wait

And pray my one is not too late.

I fear I’ll never know the love

Writ of in books of known from above.