Trembling

With trembling hands I wrote my love

With a trembling heart I sent the letter
With fear unnatural I awaited her reply

How somber this mood, this sad pacing

How sadly I wandered through my desolate mind

Searching for answers as the wait continued

No reply

With trembling hand I wrote again

With trepidation I mailed the second missive

With growing tension I awaited a reply

How desperate the hours of waiting

How slowly the time did pass

I grasped and reached within myself

Hoping to find solace 

None cam nor ever a reply

With trembling hands I took a dagger

With a trembling heart did raise it

With fear gripping I let the knife fall

How forlorn did I slump to the floor

How morose my piteous mood

Searching for meaning

Finding nothing

And yet I carried on

She is my love no more

With trembling lips I say it

Stronger, wiser, sadder now

I look for another and new life

With trembling heart