Shanghai

Meeting in a land of darkness

A land of unrelenting cold

We held each other’s icy hands

Hoping we weren't forced to fold

Searching for a word in silence

Something to hang a thread on to

The tears fell ever more frequent

The constant feeling of black and blue

Slowly the pain became a mold

Always present but stored away

In times a mask was needed

A faked smile put on display

We carried on in the graying dawn

The one’s feelings growing stronger

The other’s heart remained untouched

As if he could love no longer

We wrote of other love in poems

Our souls bleeding with open wounds

We wrote of fear and of heartache

One love’s stifled in a false cocoon

We visited far off places

From our memories to Shanghai

We spoke of uncertain futures

But never of saying goodbye

So now one sits in the silence

With the deafening sound of air

She carries on throughout her day

Given only to despair

One day the darkness shall lift again

And with it, life’s full delights

Until then she sits heartbroken

Allergic to love and light.