12/28/00

		"dead and buried"

when you are gone and dead
who will be there beside me?
none...save myself
and so i choose my path
of loneliness and seclusion
from the pain of separation
and few choose to stray me from it
even for a few moments
and so i continue on
tredding the steps that will draw
the story of my life
and my will
surviving is a difficult task
that one can easily forget
in company
so perhaps the lesson i have chosen
to teach myself
is this
and i will then have some wisdom
to take with me
when i am dead and buried

				© Andrea K