Alone
is how I do things
I don’t really have a choice
but it suits me
I’m alone
at the grocery store
Surrounded by people
but not ‘with’ any of them.
Alone
at the coffee shop.
Alone
cooking dinner.
Alone
working out.
Alone
as I write at the coffee shop
Alone
as I watch my show
Alone
as I drive to work
Alone
while at the doctors
He tells me I don’t have much time left.
He says he can break the news to the people I am with.
I look around
and shrug,
‘I don’t have anyone doc. I am alone.’
‘I’m sorry,’ he says.
‘Why?’
‘...I’m not sure. You seem fine alone.’
‘I always have been.’
I smile and wave goodbye
and get ready to die alone.
-C.H.
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