Plans. Expectations. Hopes. Dreams. They all get thwarted. I have none. Only those alone and lost know of having none. I am alone and lost.

Six down and counting. Seven not showing. A ghost of a past not yet passed. I am the ghost.

Flittering around my mind and heart but leaving. Routines of yesterday not showing.

Drab. Left. Lost.

Cheap words of happiness. Caress. Oppressed. Lies.

Yet truthful. Youthful. Encourageable. Sorrowful.

Alone. Shifting through days like sands of time. I am the sand.

Twisting. Sifting. Lifting. All for others never for self. Time has no mercy. I am all mercy.

Alone and lost.