Battered Shells

Standing lonely in a crowd,
feelings severed, screaming loud;
heart rejected, growing cold
trusting ways begin to fold

Waking eyes find life revealed,
wonder when the dirge was pealed;
love was captured, tears ran wild
from the young but learning child

Finding life like solitaire,
some that need but none that care,
most that take but none that give
all that die and none that live

Reaching out to no one there
leaving all your feelings bare;
soon to nothing they will grind
leaving but a shell behind

Looking ’round this empty sea
Battered Shells stand facing me,
standing near but none in reach
each alone on private beach