Listening to the happiness
as two lonely souls collide.
lost inside the selfishness
where their grieving hearts reside.
lie the fear and loathing,
of the greed
and hate and pride,
that separate their longing,
from the love they choose to hide.
Praying on the weakness
of their cold and shattered lives,
hidden in the rightiousness
of the joy that they're denied,
lie the dark and silent echoes
of the pain by which they're tried,
laughing.