Alone
Alone at the bus-stop. Alone in a double-bed. Alone on stage facing hundreds of people you can't see. Home alone. Alone at a concert. Alone on New Year’s Day. Alone in a car going 85 mph with not another soul in sight for as far as your eye can see or your mind can imagine. Alone in rush-hour traffic.
Alone in a foreign country where you don’t know anybody or any rules or the language or the currency. Alone at a funeral. Alone at a movie theater.
Alone in a park in the dark.
Alone in the worst thunderstorm you’ve been in, in a shady part of a dangerous city with no cab-money. Alone in church. Alone at a book store stealing glances at the intriguing brown-eyed stranger with the dazzling smile and your favorite book. Alone in a doctor’s waiting room, hearing her yell at the poor man who cannot afford the treatment and then turn on a silver smile for the rich widow. Alone in a corner of a house when you’re fifteen listening to angry music, thinking life is not worth living because your mother didn’t want you to go to a party. Dancing alone.
Alone in a room you can call your own for the first time in your life.
Alone in a packed air-plane with a heavy heart realizing why they call it that - it’s because your heart actually feels physically heavy and unbearable. Alone in a library carrel listening to French songs and talking to an old love online.
Alone in a hospital room with an unconscious and very sick friend. Alone with an obnoxious five-year old who has learned to cuss and throw tantrums and decides to practice on you.
Alone for your twenty-first birthday. Alone at your first job interview. Alone in a hotel room stashing away the free soap and shampoo before someone sees you.
Alone with a new-born baby.
Alone at an ice-cream store celebrating getting your driver’s license. Alone at the cards section of the store weeping over a lost love. Alone at a computer lab at three in the morning trying to finish up a report that’s due in five hours. Alone and one with nature at the top of a mountain. Drinking alone. Alone at a campfire because everyone else has gone to sleep and left you with your thoughts.
Alone. But not necessarily lonely.
Alone in a foreign country where you don’t know anybody or any rules or the language or the currency. Alone at a funeral. Alone at a movie theater.
Alone in a park in the dark.
Alone in the worst thunderstorm you’ve been in, in a shady part of a dangerous city with no cab-money. Alone in church. Alone at a book store stealing glances at the intriguing brown-eyed stranger with the dazzling smile and your favorite book. Alone in a doctor’s waiting room, hearing her yell at the poor man who cannot afford the treatment and then turn on a silver smile for the rich widow. Alone in a corner of a house when you’re fifteen listening to angry music, thinking life is not worth living because your mother didn’t want you to go to a party. Dancing alone.
Alone in a room you can call your own for the first time in your life.
Alone in a packed air-plane with a heavy heart realizing why they call it that - it’s because your heart actually feels physically heavy and unbearable. Alone in a library carrel listening to French songs and talking to an old love online.
Alone in a hospital room with an unconscious and very sick friend. Alone with an obnoxious five-year old who has learned to cuss and throw tantrums and decides to practice on you.
Alone for your twenty-first birthday. Alone at your first job interview. Alone in a hotel room stashing away the free soap and shampoo before someone sees you.
Alone with a new-born baby.
Alone at an ice-cream store celebrating getting your driver’s license. Alone at the cards section of the store weeping over a lost love. Alone at a computer lab at three in the morning trying to finish up a report that’s due in five hours. Alone and one with nature at the top of a mountain. Drinking alone. Alone at a campfire because everyone else has gone to sleep and left you with your thoughts.
Alone. But not necessarily lonely.
posted by RTD2 at 2:55 PM
4 Comments:
Thanks - I enjoyed that.
And I suspect I'm not alone
wow good post, and great first comment :-)
Unexpected, yet lovely. Good departure from your posts so far. Keep more of these coming
hey gal ... think i can return the compliment ...
had no idea u wrote so well ... being alone ... interesting thought ...
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