As I walk through life alone,
I search for its meaning.
I can barely remember my past,
It’s a blur of joy and happiness.
They say that if I ask,
I will receive,
And if I knock,
The door will be opened.
But I ask and ask,
And nothing happens.
I’ve tried to knock,
Yet, I can see no passage of life.
I feel stranded and all alone.
Every moment I grow weaker,
And every day I seem to be drained,
Drained completely of the once joyful life I had.
I feel trapped and rejected.
I’m like a caged animal,
I’m always trying to break free;
And I’m never successful.
Freedom, freedom is my only hope.
It’s the dream that will break the nightmare.
It is the only way out;
Out of this lonely, dark pit.
Maybe I need help,
Help to save me from myself.
Maybe I should fight harder,
Or maybe I should just quit.
I don’t know, I just don’t know.
I don’t know whether life is worth living,
Or whether I can survive life.
Only fate will tell.
The struggle within myself,
It has lasted a long while,
Too long perhaps.
But it’s much too late, much too late, indeed.
Someday I will find a way out…
I hope…
I hope I will find my personal freedom, for if I don’t
I will perish in my personal hell.
© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved. Written circa 1994.
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Author:
Tristan Robert Lange (
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- Published: August 21st, 2025 07:30
- Comment from author about the poem: For Throwback Thursday. This one reaches back to my teenage years — 14 or 15 at the time. Alone was born out of the raw ache of isolation and the searching questions I carried even then. I share it now, not because I linger there still, but because it was part of my shaping. Sometimes our younger selves speak truths we still need to honor.
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