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Maya Angelou - Alone

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone. 

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Alone - Comments and Information

Poet: Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou Art)
Poem: Alone
Poem of the Day: Oct 25 2008

Comment 39 of 39, added on October 5th, 2009 at 4:01 PM.

I enjoy this poem because it seems as though she is being real. She expresses her self through this poem and its easy for people to understand. I can relate to this poem and i've loved maya angelou for a long time now. God bless maya.

Rikki from United States
Comment 38 of 39, added on September 15th, 2009 at 1:25 PM.

This poem is deeper than meets the eye i believe. If you read Maya Angelou's Biography, she has not had the best of life's from having to cope with the world as it was with rasicm and other of lifes difficulties in which that braught with it. This poem is deffinatly what she has been through, experienced and now reflecting from what she has seen. I agree with Jon Raduazzo in which temporary pleasure is met through money and trophy wifes, but it will never fill that empty space of having others there for you. I also agree with Carrie Wade in which has said that the human race cannot live alone as individuals in isolation. Maya in the poem, is then stressing about the way we treat other, maybe this is evident from the line 'storm clouds are gathering'. And also 'the race of man is suffering'.

overall, although i am only 17 years of age, this poem is that powerfull in its own way, it can touch out to me, an individual in which does not have a general interest in poetry, but can give me the message of what i have described i think this poem is about.

Kane Humphrey from United Kingdom
Comment 37 of 39, added on May 26th, 2009 at 9:50 AM.

i love love maya all her poems i feel lyk they talking
2me.

mbali west from South Africa

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