LIFE WITHOUT SPOUSE

What's life without a spouse,
like barren island in hostile ocean
where not even a single bird
of prey espouses,
But just a mere sensation
devoid of emotion.

Without a spouse,
life is just a mere vacuum,
not even a faint pause
of a swinging pendulum.

For a lonely heart,
life is full of emptiness,
for no loving heart
to share or appease loneliness
not even when the time's hard.

~ Rb Salleh