Alone

My children are all grown up and gone.

I reminisce as I sit in my rocker all alone.

I stare at my phone and dream of a call

Just to ask how I am doing, that's all.

When my children didn't want to take a nap

I cuddled them all snuggled warmly in my lap.

Nights when they were running a fever and sickly

I nursed them to health; they recovered so quickly.

Where did the years go? It just seems like only yesterday,

That I was sewing a costume for the kindergarten play.

My car, it was a taxi to ball games, dance lessons and soccer

I traded my mini van for this little wooden rocker.

They were mine for what seems so short a time

If only they would call to tell me they are fine.

There's no one to talk to, except Millie

My Calico cat and she doesn't count really.

Companionship. Human contact is what I desire

For some reason, I can't seem to aquire.

I guess you could say I get one visitor each day.

They bring me a meal served up on a tray.

I am grateful for the the warm, healthy food

with plenty of nourishment to do me some good.

My children are busy with lives of their own

I have nothing to do as I sit here all alone.

My days are so long as I stare at the phone

Willing it to ring, so the loneliness will be gone.

The phone it finally rings as excitement pounds in my chest

My mind goes wild wondering who it will be...

Then I hang up the receiver, wrong number,

it wasn't for me.

Time is a robber of young people's dreams

when you are young you have to do so many things.

Then when you are old and have time to spare

No one is there, no not one person who cares.

I sit here alone, rocking in my little, cozy home

dreaming of a time that is now forever gone.