When darkness falls

everything fails

there is only me

no one else

I need time out

to think

this time

I really do need to be left alone

I need to face the world alone

and also, myself

(not necessarily in that order)

for only in solitude am I able to uncover the discrepancies

to rely on no one else.

***

I'm off to search for peace, or absolution, or confrontation. Whatever it is...I want to find it.