Alone: The Home Within

Alone in a home, where you're meant to live freestanding,

A place where you feel like you don’t have a landing.

The space between rooms is narrow and broad;

Most of the rooms feel nothing but flawed.

Alone with yourself in this empty, dark room,

Nothing but space, nothing but gloom.

The space between your ears feels small and tight,

Yet holds enough fear to fill up the night.

Alone with your thoughts in a vast, empty tomb,

Where words in your mind do nothing but loom.

The home that you live in is spacious and free,

Yet leaves little room for the joy that could be.

Alone in the basement, where life feels hidden away,

You long for the comfort to live freely each day.

The space between your mind and heart feels so distant and far;

Each part of you feels locked up in a jar

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Alone in the attic, you sit still in the dark,

While light slips through the rafters, inviting you to make your mark.

The space within you has walls of both darkness and light,

A home built of love, where your spirit shines bright.

Written By Melissa Heathers