ALONE

Alone we come into this world of ours

Thrusting greedy mouths

To our mother’s breast

From then it begins

Our journey to death –

Lying human touch telling us tales

Of love belonging longing togetherness

But soon we learn the knowledge of Life

That it is alone that we come

Alone we must remain

And alone that we must depart –

And the path is strewn

With hard stones

That we stub our toes on

Stumble and fall down on

Bruise and cut ourselves on

Find the strength

To pick ourselves up

And walk on

Into the yawning jaws of

Of the eternal night yon –

And even the faint footprints

That we leave behind

On the broken footpaths

Along some dusty streets of life

Are trampled upon by callous feet

Unknowing Uncaring

Each heading for the same destiny –

Obliterating and disappearing into Nothing

Fading into futile Oblivion –

Leaving behind only a sigh

In the wind

Whose language no one knows

Except the clouds the skies the trees

Who to themselves keep the secret

The secret story of our unknown journey

From life to death –

And no one can tell – will tell

That Alone we had come

Alone we had lived

And alone we had departed

From this world of ours

-by Rita Putatunda