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Inner Stirrings
Volume III
Copyright © 2010 by Keith McGavern
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Alone

That's where we eventually end up…alone,
even in the midst of activity all around.
Family, friends, associates, acquaintances, strangers,
don't begin to fill that space of aloneness
when it comes around.
All around.

Now there's a twinge of remembrance,
one I probably ought to bring forth from a time long ago,
a song birthed while gathered with persons I barely knew.
But I would do anything back then
to bring forth another expression of music
that only originates out of me.
Yes, go anywhere, do anything
and that includes behaving badly,
if I had a mind too.

Of course I'm not alone
when it comes to those things.
I probably don't even qualify to kindergarten status
if compared to dastardly deeds done by some others.
Transgressions…oh yes!

Alone with myself…
Alone with others…
Such is the way of things tonight.
Hallelujah!