"Loneliness"

So it is now, and so it shall ever be
The world changes a little more each day
And every hour and minute and second
Brings with it new sorrow and new hope
Fleeting and fair, compelling and ever cruel.

So it is now, and so it shall ever be
Every new dawn promises heartbreak
And every dusk brings healing and solace
For grief and regret, fear and loneliness
For things either lost or painfully found.

So it is now, and so it shall ever be
That your heart can never be spared
Your mind will never quite be at peace
As time changes everything it once knew
Bringing chaos within as well as without.

So it is now, and so it shall ever be
As people you once loved or hated vanish
Nevermore to walk the earth one knows
Then even grief leaves one untouched
Then pain seems but a truism, a fact of life.

So it is now, and so it shall ever be
For a broken dream follows your steps
Tenacious as a shadow and darker still
As the world changes with each moment
And only loneliness surrounds you at last.

Penned by my hand on the 19th of Glacian, in the year 393 AF.