Empty

For once I thought it would be,
My emotion and your words,
My words and your curiosity.
For once I thought we would,
Swap the roles, I be the child,
And you like me- the wise Mom.
For once I thought I would blabber,
And you would make me calm.
For once I thought I would
Be filled with excitement
And you would want to know to it all.

So that day, I did tell you,
Everything you ever wanted to know.
I let the child in me be,
I revealed my heart,
But expectations and reality are always poles apart.
And it pinched my heart to see.
You weren’t as I expected you to be.
You flaunted no emotion- no gloom, no glee.
Your monosyllables didn’t calm me,
Your ‘hmmm’ and ‘ohhhs’
Did nothing to reassure me.

For once I had longed for an embrace,
For a cuddle and a comforting caress.
For once I longed to be pampered,
For once I wanted to feel,
How it is to jabber.
For once I longed for true emotion and tender words
But my heart aches as I say this,
The only thing I ever felt was as if,
Everything is – empty, empty, empty!!!