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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