"No one in the shadows of after-all"

To Be Lonely

This is how it is then to be lonely
At the end of the day it settles in
Where I thought I saw someone was only
No one in the shadows of after-all
And nothing in spite of what might have been
Or if anyone my own reflection
On shards of mirrors broken in the fall

Mortality my original sin
And darkened mirrors in each direction
Analogous to the elements of
Earth water air and fire faith hope and love
As well as time and space and life and death
Seen dimly in the half-light from above
And oxidizing slowly with each breath

This is how it is then to be lonely
On shards of mirrors broken in the fall
At the end of the day it settles in
Where I thought I saw someone was only
Mortality my original sin
No one in the shadows of after-all
And nothing in spite of what might have been

+Steven Curtis Lance



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