Loneliness

Alone in one’s own thought

The world seems to pass you by,

Paying no attention to you,

Ignoring you, leaving you.

People rush by,

Seemingly preoccupied,

Seemingly happy

But they’re all feeling

A false security

Created by crowds

By work, by life

If only they, knew.

Yet You Yourself knew true loneliness,

What it was like,

Rejected, hurt, mocked

Disowned by Your close friends.

You hung their all alone,

Your pain and suffering

Not for yourself.

You had no need.

It was love for the world,

You wanted to become our friend

Yet we still walk alone

Oh why? Oh why?

Man needs never to be alone again,

Loneliness replaced by joy,

The world’s false hope

Replaced by you!!

Easter 1989, St. Nazaire, France.

-Richard