Empty Streets

I’m walking down an empty street,

No one I particularly care to meet.

Moonlight shining bright above me,
Casting shadows as far as I can see.

I want to be alone but I am lonely,
I want to be loud in a place that is quiet.

The faces I want to see float before me,
Their voices mock me from far away.

Trapped in a cage of isolation,
Trapped in a cage of my own making.

I used to be free, I used to be alive.
Now I just feel like part of the hive.

I gaze up at the stars as I walk,
The cold white light in a sky that is stark.

I wish I may, I wish I might.
Feel just a spark on this cold dark night.

I’m walking down an empty street,
No one I particularly care to meet.

But on the chance our paths may cross,
Don’t step on my heart where it’s just been tossed.