Lost In Loneliness

How emotionally fragile we are despite or
perhaps because of our formidably-designed 
brains that continually assess, seek, explore
the outer world tucking within all that matters 
when all that truly matters is our wish to 
never be alone, to find that perfect being
to complement our incomplete lives and bring
true meaning to all we see, hear and feel. 
We have not been designed by nature to be 
solitary creatures and it pains us when a 
future yawns like an threatening vacuum and 
desolate of expectation that by chance 
and good fortune our lives will mature 
offering peace of mind and the exaltation 
of a shared love that seems in the final analysis 
so elusive. Fortunate are those who will 
never know what it is to view the abyss of 
aloneness, never succumb to the despair 
of an incomplete life, unfinished and raw
where existence becomes a sad reflection 
of yearning, puzzling over what has been 
missed, that intense feeling of abandonment 
mere words cannot convey, sorrowing souls.