If God resides in heaven,
Saving me from fears,
Then why am I alone in bed,
Drowning in my tears?

If all is fair in love and war,
And love is meant for gain,
Then why does that same feeling feel,
So much more worse then pain?

If I am worth a dozen,
When some men count as one,
Then why am I alone tonight,
My happiness all gone?

And if you read this poem,
Then surely you’ll agree,
This thing that eats away at me,
Will surely never be?

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I feel pretty low right now and I just sorta spontaneously wrote that. Wondered if you liked it. I might take it down later. It's not all that good.

I like it. I like longer poems, though. My favourite would have to be the Highwayman.

But that is nice.

I like it. Sometimes poems don't -have- to be overly long.

Difference between overly long and four stanzas.

I liked it. It gently asked the question, in my view of it, "Does despair exist without divine condemnation?" Which alot of us have asked ourselves at least once in our lives. It was short, sweet, and to the point. Have you ever read anything by Robert Frost? Or Maya Angelou? Frost has always had the gift, or had as I think he's passed away by now, to show mankind in the spotlight while asking existentialist questions such as, "Why do I suffer" "Do we exist alone?" "If there is a god or divine entity ruling over us, then why the destruction?" The same can be said for Maya Angelou, though her work strikes me as something more profound culturally insightful.

I don't really read much poetry, nor do I know much about it. Thanks for all your comments. And I really like your take on it Marina. That wasn't my intended thought but I feel that a lot, so I guess unconciously that found it's way in. My intended thought was more to do with love. Why is it so hard to find, and why, when there is so much pain and trouble in the world, does it hurt so much? And like I said, it was pretty spontaneous, so that was just loose thinking.

i really liked reading that