The rockets flare fast.
Multi-colored explosions
spread across the night sky
while I
sit alone and stew.

I am alone
suffering in silence
succumbing to
the sovereignty
of my loneliness.

There is a woman
who hurts my heart,
a smile and voice
that presses my sanity
from the inside out
like a tube of toothpaste.

She has a family
and I have spent
thirty-seven years alone.

One taste of domestic tranquility
has enslaved me
made me want to be
her partner for eternity,

But sadly
I am not the one
she longs to see
and it breaks me.

Like all things
this will pass
but right now
it hurts to be alone.