Not Alone Poem by Carol Fleming Klein

I felt I walked alone in the night
Quiet darkness pressed in around me
I could hear the crickets and katydids
In the stillness
Small lights flickered distantly
Leaving me feeling as if set assail in blackness….
A world of my own
Lonely, aloness, only me….me…
Me and the vast emptiness
And the unknown, the fears, the insecurity
That clasped itself around my heart
Like a cold hand
Bringing the tears I feign would not admit
In my fear and my aloness
In my ignorance
I cried “Oh God.”
And suddenly
-although I neither saw
Nor heard a thing
I wasn’t alone anymore.
Your Presence touched my soul
And now warmed
And with more confidence
I walk into the unknown
In Your Company.

Sunday, August 5,1979