Where Are People That I’ve Known? Poem by Edgar John Jackson

There are many people
Around me
But I am so alone
There are many people
That I’ve known
But they don’t know me.

I am walking
In the streets
I am talking
To many people
But I am so alone
Where are people
That I’ve known?

I begin to ask
Nobody t wanna answer
I am inside of this cask
And I lost my trust
Where is my answer?
My heart begins to rust
And wear a gold mask.

Where are
People around me?
But they are so far
Like a distance star
Where are people
That I’ve known?
They aren’t by my side
They begin to hide…