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I walk through the crowd

Desolate and lost in the world

Before me a bench appears

I slowly fall onto its hardness

People move all around me

I watch them blankly

If I am alone

Why do you expect me to care?

I am so alone

Don’t you see what’s happening?

Alone . . . Lonely

I am not right

Something’s not right

I stand against the wall

Watching the party before me

I am never asked to dance

I am never offered a drink

I slowly lean back on the wall

I wish it will swallow me whole

But it doesn’t

If I am alone

Why do you expect me to care?

I am so alone

Don’t you see what’s happening?

Alone . . . Lonely

I am not right

Something’s not right

I lie listless on my bed

Hoping someone will join me

But empty are the floor boards

Lacking the footsteps I listen for

I slowly close my eyes

And wish and hope for a dream

Alone . . . Lonely

I am not right

Something’s not right

But nobody cares