Bleeding Hearts

Teacher:

"Turn to love and there you'll find
Oceans of youth resembling our kind–
Those so few who speak in life
From Silence alone inside their strife.

Their eyes will tell of ancient times
Spoken inside your many rhymes
When lives before remember the time
That One once shared before the rhyme.

Take their hand, swim their depths
In oceans warm of tears so wept.
Support the other with honest prayer
When gazing alone inside their stare."

Student:

"I found this one and swam the depths
Of rhymes so read and life so wept.
But, out of the blue, our gaze was broken:
Love and life became unspoken.

There, we swam our years in life–
Side-by-side inside our strife–
When, all at once, turning aside,
I felt a loneliness at my side.

There, I swam within those depths
Feeling a vacancy at my left
To finally witnessed the Truth of “sin”–

When bleeding hearts drown their Kin!"