This is a short poem about labor, strain, and survival.

Alone, alone

I am on my own

Life’s exertion

With weight on my brawn.

I have to be alone

Unseen, just on my own

Around the countryside

From morning ‘til dawn.

I’m too involved now

So leave me alone,

I’ve spent half my life

Just wandering on my own.

Above the hills

Where I watch the dawn

I wonder why on earth

Does Sun leave us worn.

Carrying, staggering

With load on my brawn

I wonder how on earth

Will I endure on my own.

Alone, alone

I am on my own

Life’s exertion

With weight on my brawn.

For years I have spent

The days all alone

Searching for truth

From dusk ‘til dawn.

The truth on why men

Should be raised and be born

With nothing to do

But to go on and on.

Why should we go on

When life is a disillusion?

Why should we stagger

Just so we could move on?

It may be just useless

To question life’s intention

So what’s the point of knowing

When we could just move on.

Alone, alone

I am on my own

Life’s exertion

With weight on my brawn.

You, my friend Forlorn

I have then just abandoned

For the load on my back

Seem more like a massive stone.

Just bury me alive

Will you, Forlorn?

Underneath this earth

Where load has deeply grown.

With all of these burden

I am truly drawn

But somehow, somewhere

There’s strength that kept me goin’.

For this strength alone

This urge that’s kept me strong

I am truly certain

That I will not be forlorn.

“Go on, go on”

For ease will be soon

To people who wander

All along on their own.

“You have got the strength

that could go past the storm.

You have got the courage

To be standing on your own.”

Alone, alone

I am on my own

Life’s exertion

With weight on my brawn.

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