Separate roads

Dust’s billowing clouds
Obstructing my once patent view
As I travel this back road alone
Overgrown, but once hence anew

Separated by wired fences
Of thistle thickets and thus
I long to cross over to your road
Instead of you and I alone, I wish upon a us

Although, with every attempt I try
Only the razor of the barb meets me half way
And the piercing of the thorny weed
Is the one that meets me in vain

The longing for you, when met with failure
Further and further it grows
Such burdens are separations of strain
As I glimpse into you, and see the fate of what our future holds

The lone divided road
Once you could bring to bear
Offering a ray of hope
As I ponder another traversal, back into the wilds…there

In the midst of the settling dusts
The endeavor of desire next… ought to tempt
As I brave the thorn and wire rusts
Your unwillingness for judgment met with contempt

Boundaries upon horizons palpably clear
And my heart fills up with sorrow
Stretching out my hand to more attempts that are futile
And the wounds they are deeper with the dust that I swallow

If mere decisions were to turn back
The path of painless to be sure
But, my faith carries me on, Please! End your resolve
Grasp my hand; pull me through, so that we may endure

I contemplate in frozen moments
Until the internal bleeding subsides
Praying for a miracle or even a spark
Of some love that is left, to give us a try

Then drops of second chance hopes
Falls like rain from out of your eyes
Waters the blossoming smiles of sun rays
And with that of sweeping forgiveness you drag me on through to the other side