Alone

Alone.
Tired and broken.
Ready to cry, unable to do so.
Watching them leae one by one... like smoke in the wind.
Like a dragin into the sunset.
Lost forever... now left alone.
Tired and in the aftermath, so beaten.
Cold to the bone.
A chill ache in the heart.
Nothing else matters.
At war within, it can't be won.
All alone without another soul to warm the emptiness.
In the dark, hated and tortured... devastated.
Walking in a never ending daze.
It's a wonder what happened.
How could it happen so fast?
People, friends, so many to none.
An act of misguidance, of denial profound?
Never known, never cared about.
I am still so left alone.

A.J. Downey
06-04-1999