Stretching out into shadowed gloom
Yearning for the brief relief of a warming touch
Of comfort found in entwined fingers
The reassuring empathy of soul shared tears
But finding only the cold dark void of loneliness
The isolation
The degradation
Of rejection and an untouched life
Of salvation lying so close
Yet forever unreachable
And so the light goes out
And the night exults again
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