We Were Alone! Poem by M D Dinesh Nair

I read it somewhere
'We are never alone and so you fight on'
And so I began my fight along with you by my side
And we were not alone I told you often.

There was some panic
But you and I were not alone.
Why you doubted what was true?
We could escape this beast of today
And we could race towards
The eastern dusk for a while.

Roaring civilization haunted us
But we were not alone.
Bullets would chase us
But our backs were backed by many more
Where would they strike?
I always asked for ourselves.

Jaws and claws of this beast
Might fight us but we need not fear, I thought so.
Were you listening?
I saw you bleeding at the back then.

I felt a shiver down my spines
You were still bleeding!
There was a bullet and a claw after me
And I was soon to collapse.

As you lay fallen down and
My back too beginning to bleed
I once more thought of muttering that
We were not alone.

But every one was alone!