Would I?

Would I ever really –

Do what I had been doing in thoughts?

Give up on everything around me,

Leave everyone I care for,

And –

Walk away to be alone?

Away, I would go –

Nothing to tie me down,

Do I really have the courage –

To walk out of the cocoon?

And –

Walk away to be alone?

Would I miss –

People I have grown to love?

People, I have selflessly cared for,

Almost all my life…

Would they mean nothing to me –

All of a sudden, as I make up my mind

And –

Walk away to be alone?

Would I? I ask –

Not to you or anybody else

This question is for my own contemplation

And it is always the same answer –

Despite the deep-seated sadness,

That often engulfs me in its web –

The no-one-cares feeling –

Weight that I carry on my shoulders,

I know I always would –

Be the person that I have known myself to be

And –

I might walk away mentally,

For a few frustrating moments –

I would never really be able to step out

And –

Walk away to be alone.

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