Frustration,

Visualize a 20 year old young man on board a US Navy Destroyer during the Korean War, gazing into the ocean ... dreaming of sharing romantic love with a compatible young lady;  little did he know they would soon meet ... and his Frustration of the moment and his sweet 'dream' of Love, would become an even sweeter 'reality'!

FRUSTRATION

Strange I feel – poetic too,
All my thoughts belong to you.
Odd tonight, this lonely feeling,
Silently upon me stealing.

Weird, unreal, my mind is whirling,
Here I sit, my pencil twirling,
Words on paper poorly telling,
That which in my heart is welling.

Man shall never learn to write,
Emotions such as these tonight.
Words have beauty, yet are cold;
What I feel  can not be told.

But deep within me you are there,
And ‘tho I rave or pull my hair,
Attempting what no man can do,
Unexpressed my thoughts are tool

Unexpressed, for you won’t know,
The Love I feel and try to show.
How could you – for words can’t say,
Words at best, a sorry way!

Helplessly I write the line,
Defiant of all passing time.
Only words, old words ‘tis true,
I love you Dear, - I do, I do!

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Rhey W. Hedges, November, 1952