The Paradox Of Being Alone Poem by Anita Atina

Are you alone
Eating a meal, with only thoughts for company
In a new city, with no one to share the discovery
Or when the odd one out at a party, is you

Are you alone
At a hustling workplace, where no one cares if you’re gone
At home, with masks and shields in place
Or when sex masquerades as love, or may be the reverse

Are you alone
From birth till death, as mistakes we call experience
Foster the individual, denying our connectedness
To the eternal energy, of the universal spirit

So then is the answer, to this paradoxical loneliness
Welcoming death, as the gateway
To entering other forms of being
That perhaps, take us closer to the One source

Or is the answer
Hiding within the scattered array
We call living a full life
Waiting to be discovered

So are you alone
What do you feel
Right here and now
As you read this?