Alone

"Alone is me when i'm not with you" -
how sad!
"Alone is standing and watching the clock,
and it doesn't go anywhere" -
how frustrating!
"Alone is sitting on a bench" - in the park,
"and thinking your own thoughts" -
no you to hold my hand... how lonely!
"Alone is when everybody is having fun,
and you are not" -
just wandering around missing you - oh dear...!
"Alone is eating by yourself,
and even your favourite food isn't good" -
and i can't even eat yours for you - if only i could...!
"Alone is people watching: short people, tall people,
big people, small people" -
but there's "no you...!
no best-of-all-people" - no you!
no only desirable people - no you!
'And no one to share your umbrella,
when it rains -
is terribly, terribly alone"...!

"Alone is a soda,
with an extra straw" -
waiting for you...
Alone is "watching TV,
with no one to keep you company" -
to hold you when Dracula shows his fangs...
or to laugh with you when Charlie Chaplin appears...
"And being sad,
without someone to cheer you -
is the worst kind of being alone"...
that is the loneliest alone...!

"Alone is an empty seat beside you"in the cinema -
"no one on the other end of your lonely hand"...
to cling to for comfort, and for tender loving care...!
Alone is watching happy couples walking by,
hand in hand, smile for smile -
that is really feeling you are all alone...!

For "a joke with nobody to laugh at it",
becomes a dry joke -
mirthless and desert dry...!
"A secret with no one to share it",
is no secret at all -
for it takes away the fun of secrecy...!

"Alone is a lot of things",
big and small, huge or tall;
"Alone is one - where there should be two":
you and me...
"Alone is lonely me -
when i'm not with you"...

Alone is missing you -
so, so wretchedly... so, so terribly...
and that is the worst feeling -
of being all, all alone...