An Invitation to a Stranger

Night after night being alone

Please don’t tell me I’m in the zone

Seems my life has been accident prone

Intellectual extrapolations are far flown,

Dreaming of shoulders draped with long hair

The ghost of a lover no longer there

In the final analysis who really cares

An invitation to a stranger if you dare,

It is what it is that’s all I can say

Keeping the rats in my skull at bay

Wondering when the Lord will enter the fray

Would it have made any difference if you’d stayed?

I see the drama played out everyday

Who will abandon and who will have the heart to stay

Those who give are likely the ones who pay

Less women with maternal instincts these days,

The eternal inner enemy of man

His own destructive inner nature wasn’t planned

Those followers of Jesus who ran

Thankfully there were those who defended this land,

It is what it is in the dark realm of night

When all vestiges of goodness are out of sight

Memories of the past the essence of my plight

That’s when I pray to you Lord as my guiding light,

I’ve fallen short I know this is true

No need to lie you can see right through

I’m sure you know even when my life’s askew

The mystery that escapes me I never knew.