Aloneness

Still voices, trills of laughter abound

Relationships which matter, people around

Company a keeping, yet chasms surround

The deep within - the unknown yonder.

Together, yet alone; deep yearnings galore

Ideals of relationships, fostered through years

Desires of complete union, nurtured within

Unbaked clay, never to see the potter’s kiln.

Union and separateness: two halves to a whole

Calm winds and raging tempests, the eye of the storm

Separateness experienced in the wholeness of union

Yet true union savoured by chosen few in the world.

Can there be separateness, when union is incomplete?

Or complete union when separateness is severed?

The self floats around, finding comfort in neither

Till courage stands still and lets go of either.

Letting go of desires, cravings within

Self with self, Union from deep within

The known with the unknown, shadow plays with light

Finding beauty in aloneness, for such is light.
 -Ann Joseph

List of poems penned:
Blessed are thy ways oh Lord http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/blessed-are-thy-ways-o-lord.html
Life - an Illusion http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/life-illusion.html
An Ode to my mother - http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/an-ode-to-my-mother.html
Remembrances http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/remembrances.html
Aloneness http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2013/10/aloneness.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/moments.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/when-love-finds-self.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/12/what-is-love.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/the-dance-of-truth.html