Alone

Have you ever suddenly felt alone,
Been overwhelmed by sadness,
Lost in the middle of activity?

Have you ever felt the cold fingers of isolation
rip down over the plains of the soul like a cold front,
your spirits dropping as fast as the temperature?

How can this be, in the midst of interconnectedness:
more able to see and hear people than ever
yet equally more cut off?

When even your imaginings rail against you,
when even you have seemed to abandoned yourself,
when the hollow drum of the rain is that of your soul...

Only then you know the sense
of being truly alone.