Outer Hebrides: Alone

Everybody is alone onto themselves
That’s the dichotomy of being
We are social but nobody truly knows the other
All we negotiate is a common story

Fallen

Fallen
Eons ago

Lonely
Now

Sacrifice
Labour
Hardship

Blood
Sweat
Tears
Pain

Still
Lonely
Lost

Searching
Stony path

Stumbling
Forward

Ever forward

You are not alone

This is to everyone whose life did not quite go as expected.
For everyone whose children left before them, whose parents passed before they had a chance to grow up, whose significant others are other than what’s expected, for everyone who suffers unseen because what happened should never have been.

For everyone who lives what’s expected of them because they are not brave enough to live their truth.

This is for everyone who sometimes feels lost.

You are not alone.

You are not unseen.

You are loved.