Alone ..... what a heart-wrenching word,
Hope recoils in the face of Despair;
The purpose of Life becomes blurred,
A promise broken beyond repair
Alone ..... riding the restless waves
Of loneliness on this stormy sea;
O, to send my woes to their graves
And revel in Love's sweet company!
Alone ..... too much time to wonder
When light and dark converged into one;
Helplessly I watched Fate plunder
All I held most dear under the sun
Alone ..... I knocked at Heaven's door,
But to my anguish no ear paid heed;
Yet, in dark hours I still implore
Heaven to commute what Fate decreed
Alone ..... now facing Life's twilight,
Straight to my heart panic flings its spears;
What once was deemed a sorry plight,
Has become the sum of all my fears