Where the love is lost

I wonder where the love is lost
Somewhere on the way to here
from the place where we began.
We lost the thing we cherished most
the love for which this journey began.

In this mad race of life
You ran too fast and left me behind
I waited for you to turn back for me
You never did, never realized.

For some distance I could see your back
As you ran, to win god knows what
Not once did you look back
never gave me a single thought.

And now the love is forever lost
nothing will ever be the same
You won your race at the cost of love
And I'm no longer even in the frame.

A friend in silence

Silence is my only friend
I chanced upon him at yet another bend
It took no time at all to tell
that this friend here would stay till the end.

We walked in silence, along life's road
sometimes warm, at others cold.
He kept up with me all the while
without a word,stood silently by.

When night's became too dark to see
and the days blindingly bright
My silent friend walked ahead of me
taking my hand and acting the guide.

Now all alone in this din,
where noise seems to have no end
I stand in a corner, waiting for him
My only hope, my silent friend.