Love Poem: Not Alone
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Written by: Edward Clay

Not Alone

Not Alone
Edward Clay
Created October 2016

What sadness 
does a veil of laughter hide?
What sorrow 
does gleeful merriment cover?
Behind the smile,
Someone’s aloneness and sadness 
might be disguised.
It is fear does this.
Fear someone will see. 
How alone one is. 
Will find 
how sad behind the smile is.

I speak from experience.
I speak from time spent 
alone and sad.
Spent feeling 
was not grown enough of soul 
to be able to love.

I did finally 
take off my mask.
The covering smile 
over dark sadness.
I say to you it is never too late 
it is ever possible to find.
Love,
Contentment,
Togetherness.
The knowledge 
you are not alone.