Alone

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