To be alone

I remember this part of my life

and this is one episode I've got to write

after my dear husband died, a distinguished

man arrived.I met him thru a friend, and his

intentions were honorable and clean.



so after a million years have passed,

I was ready for another date.I am not so

young anymore and this I admit,but for heaven

sakes I felt like I was on my very first date.



we danced and dined at my favorite place, we talked

and laughed at our same jokes,he seemed so nice and

full of life, I must confess I had some fun.Then he

talked of his house beside the lake,it's even complete

with allegators and some snakes.



and suddenly he asked me if I could retire,in their

place so cold and far,his offer was indeed so great

and a lot will jump at it,they call this place were

your dreams can come true,where loneliness are few and

technologies are new.



we bid goodnight and I told him that, I'll need

some time to think it right, wether his offer

I can accept and relocate to a strange,cold place.

And when I lay my head to rest,I realized that I am

happy with myself,as long as I have my friends, my poems

and my cat, I can be alone and I think I'll be all right.




















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Ruth Lovejoy's picture

I think when one has been married and it is a love of a lifetime there are points if one's spouse has passed it's understandable to want to be alone. After all you spent many years with one person knowing their routines and differences from your own you accept or make allowances for that, and when someone new comes in the picture though well meaning,they cannot take the place of a love of a life time. I know myself if something were to happen and I lost my John,I would want no other. I would be friendly with many but no one could ever take his place and I too would want to be alone. The other thing too is if you are fortunate to have a love of a life time and anothe were to enter your life though surfacely not said,inwardly there would be comparisons and of course the other person I'm sure would wonder in their own silence will they or do they measure up to that love you had in your life so yeah I understand how you feel..