--- title: I Am Not Alone date: 2008-07-17T13:38:21Z modified: 2008-07-17T13:38:23Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/i-am-not-alone/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 249 categories: - Life Poems author: Raji Krishnan timestamp: 2008-07-17T13:38:23Z tags: - Life Poems --- He says He was a flirt telling jokingly to girls he loved them could not make any binding contracts And he always got away with his histrionic gestures Until he met me To whom He never used those three [words](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/words.md) He says all this to me; to one who has learnt to mistrust but somewhere at some point I began to trust that he is remotely serious I sit and listen to him talk for hours. And as he speaks- I focus on his words And the way his mouth makes those sounds. I know I’m not meeting his eyes and he can tell I’m staring and he humors me relentlessly and we pretend we are having a casual talk. The percussion of his lips and teeth the piano [strings](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/broken-strings.md) of his tongue the squeak of the wind escaping the corners of his mouth take their turns sounding out and somehow their music turns into thoughts and ideas and feelings. I do [speak](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/when-stillness-speaks.md) sometimes But he lets my words To be few and eventually I learn to appreciate and listen. His wild talk sometimes puts me into ennui sometimes takes me with it on gentle waves of reassurance that blows the [winds of change](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/winds-of-change.md) my way and all my fears unwind until I learn- I am not [alone](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/you-are-never-alone.md)!