Where Are You?

Don’t smile when I am happy
If you cannot cry when I cry too
You were where when I was lonely?
I was comforted by whom?

Don’t take me from imagination
It’s all I have: to dream
The path back to reality
Is floored with flaws supreme

Don’t push me from the edge
Of insanity’s vast wall
For when I hit rock bottom
You’re not there to break my fall

Don’t stir me from my slumber
When I am lost in reverie
For I have died in my consciousness
And all I have is sleep

Don’t ever deride my spirit
When I am knelt in prayer
For when I really need you
Not one of you is there

Serena Malcolm