This is a poem I wrote on January 25, 1999. As I re-read it today, I realized how much it resonates with me in the world we live in. As I look around me when I go out, I see fear, anger, outrage, and disgust. I want to share this poem with you because I think it will resonate with you as well.
Alone, I stand
In the midst of the faces
With nothing but fear.
Everyone is strange.
Everything has changed,
And left me in solitude.
All the new faces look,
And see a lost soul.
A soul which does not love,
Or feel pain, or weep tears.
A soul lost in the faces,
Lost in the crowd.
No one to hold,
No one to love.
I stand alone
In the faceless crowd.
They cannot see inside,
Cannot understand anything.
Faceless people in a nameless crowd.
Yet still alone, I stand.
Cathy Marie Bown 