{"sf1_id":729907,"sf2_id":"7ej8lzZn","title":"Alone","author":"SylarEnderpaws","words":224,"posted_at":"2014-07-13T09:22:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","loneliness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/729907-alone","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/7ej8lzZn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/5f/7b/5f7bb980-9e6d-4214-97a0-b6ccfe0ac474","description":"#1 of Poems\n\nI have to deal with this every day.","content":"Alone\n\nBeing alone,\n\nI like being alone.\n\nit's quiet and nice,\n\nI am alone with myself and my thoughts.\n\nI just wish...\n\nI just wish that I could be alone with you.\n\nyou wouldn't get in my way.\n\nplease. Come be alone with me.\n\nbeing lonely isn't so bad if you are with someone to be lonely with.\n\nif you are lonely together, you can sort it out.\n\nnot if you are in cells,\n\na small pathway blocking you.\n\nyou can talk, you can see each other.\n\nbut that's it.\n\nI try hard every day to find the key.\n\nbut, as I am told, time is the only key.\n\nTime will only unlock this door.\n\nno locksmith can craft up Time.\n\nonly the universe.\n\nI get lonelier as I look at you through the bars, as I hear your voice;\n\nyour promises of love and affection;\n\nyour voice so sweet I could melt.\n\nmelt into tears,\n\nmelt into a liquid trapped even deeper in the cell.\n\nwith every word you say, I become pushed back further,\n\nfurther from the iron bars that keep me from you.\n\nstop talking... let me return to the bars and look at you again please.\n\nI don't need freedom, I need only to see that you exist.\n\nplease...\n\nbaby, why aren't you talking?\n\nI'm lonely.\n\nanother night spent alone.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}