Stranded In The Universe Poem by Barry Middleton

I am stranded in the universe
my dreams became a wretched curse
I heard that space and time can never end
I have to say I tried
until I finally cried
but solitude is still my only friend

some are born to be alone they say
I doesn't matter anyway
the road to circumstance has never changed
and the Milky Way ignores
all the things a man implores
the plan it seems is very very strange

I sleep alone each lonely night
it can't be wrong so it must be right
it seems to me there is no other way
a ball rolls down a hill
quite regardless of my will
I guess I must accept it come what may

I stare into the silent sky
until my time has come to die
and sing my songs of things I cannot know
beyond the stars and moon
the time is coming soon
to dance in space where lonely spirits go