Alone Poem by Phil Soar

I am here alone, or so it seems
The others are asleep
Lost in their world of distant dreams
Wish I could take a peep
They could be in the land of nod
Where thoughts and schemes transpire
And be cast into a wonderland
That can take their world much higher
Up to a heaven where only they
Can imagine what they will
A tranquil lake, a windswept field
Or the apex of a hill
Where they can stand and oversee
Where their dream can stop to think
Where swallows and Amazon's pass them by
And where their minds can stop and drink
Take in the sights imagined
Expose themselves to joy
Remember all their childhood days
Their home
Their favourite toy
But they can keep these secrets
As I sit and watch them sleep
Their eyes that twitch
The softness of breath
The sighs that are so deep
Exhaling all the excess cells
They used up yesterday
Returning to a world of pace and energy today.

For now, I am alone with them
I watch them sleep,
And breathe and dream
And all that matters is right there
Across the room, it seems
I watch them with a love so strong
It overwhelms my soul
For without them here
Without their dreams
Our lives are half, not whole.