You'll Never Make It Alone In This World

You’ll Never Make it Alone in this World.

Eric Welge.

An old man’s voice was heard coming from a room.

This room was empty and silent as a tomb.

The man was talking to a baby he held in his arm,

And the baby listened as if the man had a magic charm.

The man said, “Boy, you’ll never make it alone in this world.

If you try, you’ll end up like a garden in autumn, all dried and curled.

Take it from me, I tried and learned the hard way.

You’ll have nothing to live for but the hope of seeing the light of day.

When I first began, I felt alone even with a crowd gathering.

I had everything, yet I had nothing.

Life had no color; it was an endless gray.

There was no one for me to share life’s glorious array.

Then I began reaching out to others, sine by then I’d learned

You can’t make it alone in this world; happiness must be earned.

I made many friends and the sun began to shine in my life.

Friendship cut the barriers of my glum world with its sharp knife.

Mysteriously my garden didn’t die that fall.

Where gray had been, color appeared,

And my loneliness quickly disappeared.

Remember what I’ve told you, little man.

Learn from my mistake if you can.

If you start early, your garden will grow,

And you will always be able to harvest from it tomorrow.