This For You, The Lonely

Read this poem or else!

Tender hearts and trembling voices,

this is for you who shed the tears

in silent spaces, whether it's lonely 

rooms or forgotten fields where no

trees grow, no flowers blow 

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This is for you, who've forgotten

your causes Who spend the passing

days in disarray, just trying to 

remember Days and dreams and 

faces you were fond of 

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And this is for you who strayed from

home, desperate to make it out

there on your own This is for you

who couldn't quite sink your roots

Winds telling you to travel,

further still

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You who ain't got no destination 

no bed to lay your head down on

It's desperation 

It's a sense of loss 

And complete devastation 

Let these words sink on in

Through your weariness 

The bitterness, the thickened

Skin 

And let me lay upon your soul

Know from every single one of us

You ain't alone