I Sometimes Think That I Could Be Alone

I sometimes think that i could be alone

Really alone, with neither i God nor friends.

The people near me then might well be stone

Just faces on a frieze that never ends

And I would travel in my mind towards death,

A world within a world sealed like a tomb.

My thoughts would be as silent as my breath,

And , like my breath, expire at my doom.

Such thoughts would make me shudder, were not you

A world where i may enter and find rest.

A rock gives way within and i walk through

To be in laughing eyes a welcome gues.

That God I have you, friend, that i might stay

And be as I could be no other way.