In reference to my last post and in an effort to even up both sides, I feel the need to point out the fact no man is an island... nor is any woman.

I wish I'd understood this all those years ago when I was striving to keep my emotions bottled up inside me...

In a crowded place I felt alone
And never knew quite why
I could not reach for others
No matter how I tried.

My life was one of solitude
Enclosed within a ring
Of self constructed battlements
Where no-one heard me sing.

If only I had realised
The folly of my ways
How sad a way for any man
To spend his lonely days...