Set Adrift

My good friend, my dear old friend
and I say so despite the frailty of
our friendship, I know your pain
and the desperation of loneliness. And
I know also that your desolate condition
is the result of your very own lack
in failing to fully appreciate how so
fortunate you once were, as a good and
decent man, spurred on by irrational
desires to cause hurt and pain to those
most responsible for your comfort
and your happiness. Spurning the
integrity of your responsibility to them
to achieve a fleeting goal of passion
they became lost to you, and now you
flounder finding no one else to fill
the yawning vacuum in your life. In
the process discovering the reality that
possessions complement but do not
enrich one's life, and the absence of
love and companionship is destructive
of the value of life.  There are simply
those truisms and realities that cannot
be conveyed but must be lived to fully
comprehend ourselves as agents of our
own dislocation from life's promise.