Alone

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