Without Love

By Emily Thrasher, 2005

Can you stand to look at me? 

Do I disgust thee?                  

Are my eyes so bleak?        

That I am one not to seek?

My hearts so black

For love is what I lack

No one can see

The thing I wish to be

Something I wish I had

It makes me so sad

My tears run long

My life’s a bad song

No one wants to sing

No smile to bring

My rose is dead                       

I’m screaming in my head

I’m crying out to you    

Yet you have no clue