It Is So Hard To Be Alone: Poem

It Is So Hard To Be Alone

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It is so very hard to be alone; from dawn to dusk

From dusk to dawn, alone, alone alone.

From a chant to a rant to a highpaying job

To an apartment in St Germain des Pres

That everybody wants to rob.

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It is very hard to be a cog in the wheel

It is very hard to be a cog without a wheel

To turn, to burn in one's flaming solitude.

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From birth to death, this profession of existence

Making an art of solitude, an act of independance.

It is so easy to die alone.

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Copyright: Rani Turton