A single rose with thorny stem <br />On mother nature`s tattered hem <br />Which no-one cares to steal away <br />So left to wither and decay <br /> <br />And just one tear-dropp on the hand <br />Brushed upon the dusty sand <br />To be consumed into the earth <br />As one which has no lasting worth <br /> <br />There stands alone a single tree <br />No leaf upon it you will see <br />Beneath it grows no bush or flower <br />Empty, barren, silent bower <br /> <br />A lonely candle burning bright <br />Extinguished rudely in the night <br />Leaving shadows set behind <br />The shuttered windows in the mind <br /> <br />To tread a path that leads nowhere <br />(None to love, none to care) <br />A battered old grandfather clock <br />Marking time - tick tock, tick tock <br /> <br />A single petal on the bloom <br />A single chair, an empty room <br />A place of silent solitude <br />A place with loneliness imbued <br /> <br />I see a monolith of stone <br />A vision of the one - alone <br />A single soul alone to cry <br />A single soul alone to die<br /><br />Valerie Dohren<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-870/
