Alone

I woke up.
3:56 am.
It's dark out.
I am alone.

I was alone for longer....
Longer than I have realized

I dreamt.
I dreamt of you.
Not the boy you are.
But the man  you were.

and then I woke up.

I remember.
Loving you.
I remember...
Looking in your  eyes.

But I am now alone.

And I have been...
For a long long time.

I don't know
Precisely when you left.
But I know
When I realized you were gone.

It was that first time
That I ever locked...
Myself in the bathroom.
I sat down against the door...

And I cried.
I thought about leaving you.
And I didn't know why.

I didn't know why...
You had already left me.

I knew I was alone that night.
Because for the first time,
You didn't understand.

Your eyes were different.
You had stopped loving me.

Was it because I had changed?

That night, I locked myself in.
I almost slit my wrists that night.
With that razor you always left by the sink
And so I realized...

I was living for you.
And not for me.

I knew, suddenly.
That if I stayed that way...

I would never be myself again.
So I woke up.

And when I woke up...

I was alone.