SOLITUDE

(my first lame attempt at poetry)

I chose my shadow as my partner

My lone comrade , my friendly harbor

Who walked by me, in pain and sorrow

Knows my previous, today and morrow

Stood by me, against the world

Even with me wrong,

It believed my word

Consoled me in my despair

“you aint alone, oh you hear?”

It laughed with me

But not coyly

And took my pain

Unlike people humane

Who could feign if they like

and behind your back strike

that aint friend, that’s a foe

and the world’s like that

for all I know.

The belief fortifies

And grows the despise

Towards humans

And grows the affection

Towards my solitude

Then came the night

All got of sight

I searched for my harbor

My shadow, my partner

There was none

It was also gone

I consoled my heart

That we were only the night apart

Everyone needs time alone

Only so my shadow had gone

But don’t people need time too?

Even they need space, yes they do!

And it struck me out of the blue

It wasn’t them,

It was me wanting thinking anew

As I realize this

I look around

Loneliness dies

And my first friend

Wasn’t far away

Fare thee well my solitude

i am better with my friends now I say..