We live in mist and cloud searching for warmth and mirth.
The mist fades, the clouds falter.
We each stand on a peak. I see her glimmering smile it banishes doubt and worry.
Who knew a smile could be so mollifying so filling, yet distant?
I look below to the treacherous valley. I shiver at thought but omens cannot purchase my hope. I march forward.
Across the chasm of maybe so and perhaps not I fight the tide of blistering denial, of mourning and loss but as I near, her smile loses its bearings it slackens and crumbles smeared in shadow it dies slowly so does my odyssey...
Without her sunlit smile to light the way through treacherous valley and darkening day I wait, in wonder of my eager stupidity, and waste away in ravenous dismay for her smile does fade in the nearing when will I learn that I can never get close for comfort.
We don't seek love and romance for the sake of love and romance. I believe we do it to escape darkness. Much as light banishes shadow. Love banishes loneliness and pain. So we struggle onward, through treacherous valleys hoping to peak at a wondrous experience.