Alone

CARRY ON TUESDAY

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The words in blue are from

"A Letter To P'ie Ti" by Wang We

 'sitting alone listening to the silence'.

ALONE

Alone.... the saddest word of all

Since we are meant to be with others.

As babies we cried piteously

When parted from our mothers.

And there is nothing gloomier

Than being alone in a crowd;

When one is forced into silence

While surrounding sounds are loud;

When the party laughter is deafening

But the joke's not for your ears,

And nobody has noticed you,

You're sometimes near to tears.

And yet, to be alone by choice

Is one of living's joys.

Sitting alone on an empty beach,

With only the surf for noise,

Or listening to the silence

As one gazes at the stars,

Far away from the jangling sounds

Of a million motor-cars.....

These are the most pleasurable

Occasions we have known.

There's a world of meaning 

In that simple word 'alone'.

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I think I've blogged this one before but it fits the bill.

DREAM COME TRUE

You ask me to dream of something

That's almost too good to come true.

Well, let me pretend I'm young again,

Say, about twenty-two.

I'm feeling a little dismal;

Things aren't going my way.

My love-life's non-existent;

My homeland's rather grey.

I dream a dream that's so wonderful

That I feel I'm wasting my time.

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'I want to live till I'm very old

And to write lots of things in rhyme.

I want to have a son and daughter;

I want to live in the sun;

I want to have many, many friends

And delight in every one.

I want to have three grandchildren

Who live very near to me.

And I want to be able to walk when I want

Down to the rolling sea.'

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I'd have laughed at myself at twenty-two;

I was asking a terrible lot!

But now, at eighty, good gracious me!

That's exactly what I've got!

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