“Alone Again” by Morgan Gabriel
As soon as I walked into my art class one day, I had an idea for a poem, and I just let that idea follow right out. Almost halfway through writing the poem I decided that I wanted this poem to tell a story. I wanted the story to show how, even though we follow the flower, the story isn’t specifically about her. It’s about life and how life goes on even when we die. Loneliness is a huge theme in “Alone Again” because we all know at some point in our lives, we will experience the feeling of being alone and thinking that we must go through stuff by ourselves. The flower is alone, but one day she isn’t anymore. The next she’s alone again. Life is just like that one day you have something and the next you don’t, and there’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen.
Alone Again
A flower is born in the middle of March
Just a seedling new to a big world
Over time the flower starts to bloom
Starts to see the world get parched
It starts to curl up with fear
No one to comfort the poor flower
Alone in the world is what she thinks
Until she hears a cry
It isn’t hers
“Hello?” is all she says
“Hi” is all is said from the unknown figure
As days went by nothing else was said until one day
When the flower was tired of being alone
She asked if the mystery figure was there
After a while it replied
They spent months talking to one another
But one morning the flower woke up
She felt uneasy
“Hey are you up?”
There was no reply
“Its quite breezy today isn’t it”
Still, no one answered
She turned a little and saw that her friend was on the ground
Her friend didn’t even make a sound
The feeling of loneliness returned
But this time it was worse
She felt like she had been cursed
And there was nothing she could do
That same day there was a fire
She stood there ready to be burned
And that’s what happened
But out of the fire
Came a new seedling ready to the face the world
Bloom! - Spring 2022