{"sf1_id":1739457,"sf2_id":"r17JdJkn","title":"Alone I Live","author":"Gravidal","words":319,"posted_at":"2021-07-12T02:09:00.000Z","tags":["Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1739457-alone-i-live","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/r17JdJkn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d6/04/d6041900-ca71-4478-ba9c-d106454bef6e","description":"#1 of Poems\n\nWas feeling down and this poem just came to me","content":"Alone I Live\n\n  \n\nAll alone in abyss it seems\n\nWhere people only notice me in dreams\n\n  \n\nTime and again I try to play a part\n\nOnly to be reminded that the world is a sour tart\n\nFor one such as I who has a noble heart\n\nAlone I stand apart\n\n  \n\nYears have passed me by\n\nWhile I lived in the shadows nearby\n\nFor such a grace as beauty will fly\n\nNever to be seen by my eye\n\n  \n\nLoyalty has always been my winning curse\n\nLost in the world like a mad nurse\n\nHope I still claim to be a winning verse\n\nAnd yet I stand without someone to converse\n\n  \n\nI have heard that nothing gold can last\n\nYet when you have never seen such a past\n\nHow can you understand it so fast\n\n  \n\nIn the darkness I wait to see\n\nIf anyone in this world will notice me\n\n  \n\nLove I have sought to the end\n\nTo be myself and never bend\n\nAlone I find myself always to fend\n\nThose who claim to be my friend\n\n  \n\nIf ash is to blow away\n\nThe dust of another day\n\nI would stand at bay\n\nReady to reveal my play\n\n  \n\nFlaws flow through us all\n\nYet I see those who stand tall\n\nTrying to hide themselves from the fall\n\nOf when I come looking for the long haul\n\n  \n\nWhispers upon the wind reveal\n\nWhat other think of my appeal\n\n  \n\nIn this world we seek to hide our shame\n\nBehind a wall of hatred set in flame\n\nTogether we force upon the blame\n\nThose who hide without a name\n\n  \n\nFriends have moved beyond in years\n\nLeaving me with little more than tears\n\n  \n\nI can recall a time before\n\nWhen I wanted more\n\nOnly to be left with this sad lore\n\n  \n\nThis heart has never known love\n\nBecause I could never find my dove\n\n  \n\nFlowers and candles a gift to give\n\nYet alone I live\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poems","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1873353-gone.json"}}