Alone

I stand alone again
Cut off from others
Who have crowded
Around me in myriads

A single drop which
Looks like every other
But stands out when
Others try to be one

Not deliberate, not intentional
It is something innate
Which has always kept me
Aloof distant and solitary

Neither is it my own wish
For I have often tried to merge
To share the soul, gain the energy
But never have I succeeded

In unifying with others
In new place I gain a newer solitude
I try very hard not be lonely
But something deep down keeps me away

From the mingling crowds
Stopping me from getting washed away
In the sea that’s around me
Something tethers my stance

And so however hard I try I am left
On the shore seeing waves after waves
Leaving satisfied and in company of something
That mattered to them and may not even

But I remain petrified polished and immovable
Like a rock in a sea touched by every wave
Smoothened and pulled by every new gush
Only to leave it alone, solitary and single as it was.