Poem · Day 5 of Retreat · Dec 2025
Allone
Welcome to the castle of my aloneness, where the walls are made of shame.
Welcome to the castle of my aloneness
Where the walls are made of shame
I keep myself hidden away
Feeling all alone
I say it's to keep me safe
But really it's to push you away
I want to be separate from the world
To be myself without all the woes
Yet I can't seem to find myself
When all I feel are these thick walls
There are something about these walls
That don't feel like walls at all
I don't know what they are
But when I get close they just fall
They crash into the unknown
Sending ripples through my body
There is tingles in my hands
A softness in my chest
And a laugh escapes my lips
As if this was all there is
"I don't know!" I laugh
The walls fall one by one
"I don't know!!" I fall
In some sort of hysterical ecstasy
It's like the walls were made of me
Twisted in a confusing mystery
How could I not find myself
When I am all there is
I feel separate from it all
And yet interconnected all at once
I heard a wise one once say
"You were never alone"
How could I be?
when we are all one