'Alone! ' I cried

'Alone! ' I cried again.

'Alone I am with me!

Lonely in a world of mist

Alone, I reach to touch your wrist

And see if I am thee.’

To be alone beside a soul

Afloat, adrift; an empty ghoul

Alone in woe; the yearning flesh

To fill a thin, contorted mesh

Diffuse atop an icy floor, alone.

So much alone in fact, I lack

The tonal vibrancy of life:

I am a song without a tune

alone;

A greying sky in June

alone;

The blueness of a sullen moon

– waning in a starless night–

alone;

Coasting down a weedy pass

alone;

The only image in the glass

alone;

To meet a certain heavy fate

– to turn and shut the knurly gate–

…alone.

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