You Are Not Alone

Something a little more hopeful than most in my gallery

Life can seem, at worst of times

A trial to stand on our own

Though no matter how bad things get

Take simple solace in the fact that

You are not alone

 

For those of us who spent our time

Lost in broken homes,

Either a victim of indifference

Or nursing broken bones

I just want you to remember

You are not alone

 

For us who spent so long

Running from ourselves

Building walls and hiding pain

Upon mind’s sagging shelves

A smile, a mask, against the grain

You are not alone

 

Those of us who doubt ourselves,

Depreciate, self-loathe

Always finding another fault

Another failure in the vault

Another brick into the wall

You are not alone

 

Broken hearts are plenty found

Though some are hard as stone

From things they can’t atone

Hope and faith

To pain and loss

You are not alone

 

Loneliness, a heavy burden

Is helped by family and friends

Maybe even one like you

Sharing in your sins

They can help you out

If you’ll let them in

If you take a hand

You are not alone

 

I’d like to say that it gets better

Just one day at a time

I’d like to say that it gets better

If you stand and try

Though try and fall, get up again

Take a breath, a second wind

And just keeping moving on

And if you doubt, I assure you now

You are not alone.