The Shadow of an empty embrace

The Shadow of an empty embrace.............. By Pasquale Lorina

He was born of two, partly by one

A male child comes into the world what shall he expect

The love of two, the closeness of one

The birth of winter turns to summer

An empty glove with no ball

A bicycle with no one to ride

Love in silence taken but not accepted

Who will learn the boy and cultivate the man

A shadow is cast with any empty embrace

A different world not of his own

The boy accepts the world, yet filled with anguish

He grows old asking why?

Yet still there is no answer, no excuse to ease the pain

There will never be an answer from the one whom caused the pain

The man whom now is formed, living in the shadow with an empty embrace