ALONE, TOGETHER <br /> <br />We rode along beside us, <br />going nowhere once again. <br />It was dark just like before, <br />and the empty place between us, <br />like the empty space inside, <br />still filled to overflowing <br />with sad tears we both had cried <br />alone, together. <br /> <br />And we moved full empty faces as before. <br />gazing sideways at each other <br />hiding loving empty eyes, <br />breathing heavy empty sighs, <br />sharing time and place and motion, <br />searching how to hide <br />the feelings that had died, <br />feeling nothingness inside. <br />Again, <br />alone, together. <br /> <br />Alone. <br />Together. <br />To the home we almost loved in, <br />‘thru the doorway, nothing spoken, <br />sharing separate rooms unmentioned. <br />We could not fill that space: <br />Emptiness is nothing, in every empty place. <br /> <br />We could not hide the fullness <br />of our empty love inside, <br />of the vacant gaping wholeness <br />of the love each was denied <br />alone, together. <br /> <br />Empty shadows brushed the walls, <br />vague reflections of the past, <br />twisting faces grinned tomorrow – <br />lovely echoes died at last. <br /> <br />And our tears still flowed together as we ran <br />alone, together, <br />standing fast. <br /> <br />~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <br />Rhey W. Hedges, July 8,1978<br /><br />RHEY W. HEDGES<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-together-4/
