Alone

Why, when my heart is broken,
are you so far away?
like today.
All through our lives together,
when something brings me down,
like now,
How come you're not around?

When we were young and wiser,
I told it like it was,
"I can't stand to be alone!"
and now that we are grown . . .

I think of years spent growing,
the waiting and the knowing,
You'd soon leave me alone.

The harder I tried, the harder I cried,
and I guess I've always known . . .
I was born to be alone.

©Paula McCarty