Long Suffering (Haiki)  


Uncomfortable,
never to be comforted.
I must persevere.

Apart by myself,
I talk with God and wonder -
so alone yet not.

Longing for something -
yet unnamed though sadly known,
many friends possess.

I fear to have it,
pain or pleasure may result. 
No one knows my fate.


(c)2001 by Robert H. Harrison