Tanya Davis - How to be Alone (Poetry) lyrics

if you are at first lonely, be patient if you've been not alone much or if when you were you weren't okay with it then just wait you'll find its fine to be alone once you're embracing it we can start with the acceptable places the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. where you can stall and read the paper where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there where you can browse the stacks and smell the books you're not suppose to talk much anyways so its safe there there's also the gym if you're shy you can hang out with yourself in mirror and put your headphones in and there's public transportation because we all gotta go places and there's prayer and meditation no one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation start simple things you may have previously avoided based on your avoid being alone principles the lunch counter where you will be surrounded by chow downers employees that only have an hour and their spouses work across town so they, like you, will be alone resist the urge to hang out with your cellphone when you are comfortable with eat, lunch, and run take yourself out for dinner a restaurant with linens and silverware you're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo desert and cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger in fact, some people at full tables will wish they were where you were go to the movies where its dark and soothing alone in your seat - amid a fleeting community and then take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you stand on the outside of the floor until the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you dance like no one's watching because they're probably not and if they are a**ume it is with best human intentions the way bodies move genuinely to beats is after all, gorgeous and affecting dance until you're sweating and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things down your back like a brook of blessings go to the woods alone and the trees and squirrels will watch for you go to an unfamiliar city roam the streets there are always statues to talk and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might have never happened had you not been there by yourself society is afraid of alone though like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements like people must have problems if after a while nobody is dating them but lonely is a freedom that breathe easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it you could stand swath by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner look both further and farther in the endless quest for company but no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept perhaps in the interest of loving oneself perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning where tokens for holding the lonely at bay because if you're happy in your head then solitude is blessed and alone is okay its okay if no one believes like you all experience is unique no one has the same synapses can't think like you so just be relieved keep things interesting life's magic things in reach and it doesn't mean you aren't connected the community is not present just take the perceptive you get from being one person in one head and the fully effects of it take silence and respect it if you have an art that needs a practice stop neglecting it if you're family doesn't get you or religious sect doesn't not meant for you don't obsess about it you could be, in an instant surrounded if you need it if you're heart is bleeding make the best of it there is heat in freezing be a testament