The light disappeared into a distant sky
As a woman walked home with a tear in her eye.
A laugh shared at work but there’s no one at home

Few understand what it’s like to be really all alone.

Home is full of darken thoughts of weakness and despair

Your life is not your own after all’s been stripped bare.

Regrets and confusion over things that have passed.

What should have been forever has failed to last.

Depression is always close, it’s never far away
Ability to cope with life is dealt with day by day
Loneliness lives within a troubled mind

It has nowhere to run to, no safety to find.

Alone at night without a comforting hand.

Life can be suspended by the merest strand.
Finding comfort in a crowd is not a choice any more

There is no easy answer, in fact, there is no cure.

Take a drink, take a pill but the loneliness is still there.

Friends do not understand, because they are unaware

Of the overwhelming anxiety swelling thoughts of fear

That's locked inside the loneliness of a single tear.


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