Alone – fantasy poem
Alone is a beautiful fantasy poem written in allegory about a woman who forsakes her lover to follow other purposes in life, and pays for it in the coldness of growing isolation. The mountain represents her decision and its resulting isolation from love and what could have been, the snow the coldness of her decision, and the ever growing finality of her decision.
ALONE – fantasy poem
©2013 by Jon Gutmacher
She sits on a mountain
surrounded by snow
it is a place
only
she can go
And there up high
in frozen bliss
she wonders now
if she will miss
The life she left
if life could be
in warmth of sand
by breeze of sea
And holding the hand
of who she loved
now lost
now lost
in time
Now snowflakes swirl
and gather round
the path that led
cannot be found
Now deeper
deeper
snow grows deep
so every day
her secrets keep
And looks around
this place so bare
as white does streak
once golden hair
And lines invade
a perfect face
all tempered in
the snow’s embrace
For she lives alone
upon the steep
has given all
but did not keep
What she loved best
and let him go
forever left
in deepening snow
Forever left
alone
The background image is named “Heart of Snow” by the famous painter Edward Robert Hughes, and shows a woman lying on the snow, in the high mountains.
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