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Alone

Sara Smollett

March 1997

Alone.
Simple word, short, two syllables.
A loan of time to be.

Does the tree ever fall?
Branch
  by
    branch
Am I.

I want to run up to them and yell
until they listen (and they never will):
You are all alone. Don't you see?

It's not such a bad thing:
To Be.