Be

The lights are out, sound their sleep, happy dreams, content snores, let them be let them be. He looks at them he shuts the door, he wants to run, it cannot be it cannot be. The love they give, the joy that's make believe, the glee in their laughs and the delight on their faces, he cannot feel cannot feel. The food its great, the air its clean, the birds that chirp, the leaves that rustle, the rain that falls, the embraces of love, he cannot taste, he cannot feel, he cannot hear he cannot see cannot see. The love that is real, the home that is perfect, the goodness that they are, he cannot bear cannot bear. The life that he chose, the truth that he rejected, now he cannot flee cannot flee. We love you they say, we need you they cry, they are real he knows they are pure he knows so now he is here he is here. Every giggle every laugh oh so hollow oh so hollow, his eyes so distant, his soul so parched, his heart so grieved, his breath so laboured, this is now this is forever. He is here and will never be. That was there where it was ought to be but it can never be never be. I am here you are here we are here but I am there. Never here always there but there can never be never be. Let me be let me be.