Alone

 

Siegfried Sassoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'When I'm alone'— the words tripped off his tongue

As though to be alone were nothing strange.

'When I was young,'  he said; 'when I was young....'

 

I thought of age, and loneliness, and change.

I thought how strange we grow when we're alone,

And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,

And blow the candles out, and say good-night.

Alone... The word is life endured and known.

It is the stillness where our spirits walk

And all but inmost faith is overthrown.