Alone

Lost in thoughts and emotions 

Tired of pretending everything is ok 

I’m not ok 

I’m lost in the wilderness that is this new normal 

Alone 

Locked in the dark recesses of my mind 

Locked inside the box that has developed around me 

Locked out of happiness and joy 

Locked from the progression of life 

Alone 

Crying endlessly mourning profusely 

When will this season end, when will my beginning begin again? 

Hope is a dream unreachable, a goal unfulfilled 

Hope is a falsehood a faint point of recognizable deceit 

Is it all a dream? 

Or is the reality the dream we couldn’t believe to be true? 

Is…. 

  

  

Tony L. Jefferson, Jr. 2014