Alone

'Gonna buy me a ticket, as far as I can now. Gonna ride til the train run out of track'

cold winds blowing shivers

Sun please come worship me

lost in a desert,

alone among millions

faces roll in on high tide

I wanted, oh what I wanted

wanted to see was

you walking toward me.

Forests bursting over with life

in songs and whispers speaking to me

I fall like a log with a

rotten, decay-eaten heart

crashing quietly to the floor

What I wanted, what I can't see,

is what happened to you

that you walked away from me.

Seas of humans, each a snowflake

piled into a heap of thought

The mountain breaths thin air

caressed by clouds

alone in altitudes far from emotion

Would I worship there?

Could I shed humanity's grasp

and stop craving recognition?

And so the last places are where

the shadows of what I've passed

mold ever bigger piles of regret

into dunes blown by 

my emotional winds.

Why does 'alone' have to sound

like it's so sad?

Author's Note

Reviews

[Valentine]

Being left alone sucks! My husband passed away 3 years ago and some days I almost get mad at him for leaving me here alone. I feel for you. Valentine

[Mark]

THank you Valentine. I think the best we can do is to come to terms with our loneliness and not let it define us.

[TL Boehm]

lyrical and lonely. Well done.

[Stanley Wilson]

I love reading your work you tell it how it is great poem.

[Rosalind Gale]

A strength and a fearlessness - we are not alone, and if we are, so be it... all feelings like this you have expressed, Mark, are brought home and made loving, and safe. That is what I get from your fine poem.
Rosie
-xx-

[Mark]

Rosie... so good to see your comment. I hope you are well and thank you for your kind words. :)

[Inder24]

The feeling of Being Alone is usually a bad feeling , but this feeling also give us the strength to fight back to the world . I too have experienced that feeling . btw, Good poem . really captures that feeling :)

[Cassie]

That location called alone is usually so sad...Thank you for RR

[Mark]

Thank you for reading Cassie.

[icelandicblue]

There is such a plaintive cry in this loneliness:

Seas of humans, each a snowflake
piled into a heap of thought

I love that image.

[Mark]

Thank you. :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Powerful words and good music. I had to read gain.
"Why does alone have to sound
like it's so sad?"
Thank you Mark for sharing the outstanding poetry.
Coyote