It Happens to Those Who Live Alone

that they feel sure of visitors when no one else is there

Photo: © David Whyte

It Happens to Those Who Live Alone

It happens to those
who live alone
that they feel sure
of visitors
when no one else
is there,

until the one day
and the one
particular
hour
working in the
quiet garden,

when they realize
at once
that all along
they have been
an invitation
to everything
and every kind
of trouble

and that life
happe…