WHAT IS LONESOME?

 

WHAT IS LONESOME? I MIGHT ASK.

WOULD YOU TELL ME IF YOU COULD?

IS LONESOME BEING BY ONE'S SELF,

OUT IN SOME PINEY WOOD?

 

LONESOME, FOR ME IS, AS YOU SEE,

A WAY OF MIND AND HEART.

YOU ARE MISSING SOMETHING, OR SOMEONE,

WHICH YOU HAVE SET APART

 

AS NECESSARY FOR YOUR VERY LIFE,

YOUR HAPPINESS IS AT STAKE,

YOU MUST HAVE THIS PERSON, OR THING,

SO THAT YOUR HEART WON'T BREAK.

 

LONESOME IS EXPECTING A PHONE TO RING

AND TO HEAR YOUR DARLING'S VOICE.

THE PHONE STAYS SILENT AND DOES NOT BRING

THE ONE PERSON OF YOUR CHOICE.

 

LONESOME IS WHEN YOU LOSE SOMEONE

YOU HELD SO VERY DEAR.

LONESOME IS WHEN YOU ARE ALL ALONE,

AND CRY YOUR LONESOME TEARS.

 

 

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