All alone. Here I am.
This
is the path. The endless path.
This
is life. The endless life.
It
leaves you alone. Deserted.
It
takes away. The one you love.
Darkness.
Sadness.
Faces.
All gone.
Everyone
stops.
I
continue.
What
good amid these?
O me. O life.
Yasmin Sarwar
Answer.
That
you are here—that life exists and identity,
That
the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
-Walt Whitman ( Leaves of
Grass 1892: O Me! O Life!)