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Poem by 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.



Maya Angelou


Maya Angelou's other poems:
  1. Just for a Time
  2. On the Pulse of Morning
  3. Let's Majeste
  4. When You Come to Me
  5. The Gamut


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Sydney Dobell Alone ("There came to me softly a small wind from the sea")
  • Lewis Morris Alone ("WHAT shall it profit a man")
  • Edgar Poe Alone ("From childhood's hour I have not been")
  • Ambrose Bierce Alone ("IN contact, lo! the flint and steel")
  • James Joyce Alone ("The noon’s greygolden meshes make")
  • Edward Sill Alone ("STILL earth turns and pulses stir")
  • Bruce Kiskaddon Alone ("The hills git awful quiet, when you have to camp alone")
  • Sara Teasdale Alone ("I am alone, in spite of love")
  • Celia Thaxter Alone ("THE lilies clustered fair and tall")

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