When I’m Feeling Friendless

I’m standing in the darkness,

Standing all alone.

For this bleak existence

Is all I’ve ever known.

Then through the darkness

A hand reaches through the night,

And a voice reassures me

That everything will be alright.

I shakily reach toward it

Wary and unsure,

Then I see a beaming smile,

And I remember her.

Somehow I’d forgotten

In my pity and self doubt

She’s the one who stood beside me

Showing me the way out.

I wasn’t all alone

I just had shut my eyes,

I convinced myself I was all alone

And blocked out their plaintive cries.

They were trying to reach me

Through the walls I had made.

And finally it’s broken down

And I know friendship will never fade.

Alica Hall