I Too Am Much Alone in This World - in reply to Rilke

I too am much alone in this world

I thought you would never ask

There’s some that do

And others who can’t seem to stay on task

There are poets beholden to a higher truth

And those who aren’t very good at math

We’re all so alone in the world

Yet together we travel such a crowded path

Consecrated or not we may never know

Now that our time

Has all but passed

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Yesterday was Rilke's birthday and I wrote this poem in reply to one of his poems called I Am Much Too Alone in this World.  You can read Rilke's poem here.

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