Finally You Always Find Yourself Alone Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is a fact of your life

you marry
and have children
and grandchildren

and years pass by
leaving you
with wrinkles and
arthritis
bones that crack
and a brain that
does not remember
recent things
anymore

finally you find yourself alone
in your room
for they too shall find life
of their own

even your wife
has to struggle with her thoughts

and then you begin
to find
the company of God
as something
missing
long been missing

your hands are empty
your heart so hollow


you find yourself back to
where you once began

a cry and then
the silence and the sigh

now,
back to the entrance

and then
the most awaited
exit door

light slipping on the
holes of the wall inside
a dark room

ah, you are in a monologue
the air listens
like a vacuum inside a glass

less dramatic
but should be with
more glory, perhaps...