Uriah Hamilton - Dog-Like Compassion

When you’re alone
In the pale moonlight
And suffering
Just like me,
I wonder why
We can’t get together?
One time together?
I don’t mean
Storybook fantasies
Of forever,
Only one moment’s
Tender embrace,
A passionate kiss
Upon your weary face,
Two gentle souls
Lost in time
In the same sad place.

I know someone
Has hurt you
But it wasn’t me,
I’d kiss your open wounds
With dog-like compassion;
Please, let me
Sit in your living room
Beside you
And listen to the rain
On a summer evening;
Tomorrow,
I may never find you,
We may have to accept
Alienation and a thousand regrets,
But not here and not tonight.

Uriah Hamilton

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