We're Not Alone

It’s all about who does and doesn’t see

   The private heart beneath the public mask

That’s locked away; and when you lose the key

   And you need help, but you’re too scared to ask,

It’s all about who reaches out to you—

   Who makes you see beyond your own despair—

Who looks at you and says “What can I do?”—

   Whose every answer is “Because I care.”

Because it’s all about the help we give

   To those without a hope.  It’s what we do

When doing nothing’s easy—how we live

   Among and with ourselves—that sees us through

      The lonely worst of life, till we can say

      We’re not alone—unless we look away.

 

Copyright 2015 Matthew J Wells