In Pursuit of Poetry

March 22 - Maya Angelou - Alone

March 22, 2018
We need other people we are social beings. We find success in connections, not in striving to do things by our own means. those who think they don't need anyone are wrong. We all need someone. We all need a soft place to land; a place we venture out from and always return to for sustenance and support.

Alone
By Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/alone-by-maya-angelou

** Image ID #1855238 Unavailable **