Alone Poem by Lora Colon

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