You Will Never Be Alone - William Stafford

[Larry Robinson]

You Will Never Be Alone

You will never be alone, you hear so deep
A sound when autumn comes.  Yellow 
Pulls across the hills and thrums,
Or the silence after lightning before it says
Its names—and then the clouds’ wide-mouthed 
Apologies.  You were aimed from birth:
You will never be alone.  Rain
Will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,
Long aisles—you never heard so deep a sound,
Moss or rock, and years.  You turn your head—
That’s what the silence meant: you’re not alone.
The whole wide world pours down.

	- William Stafford
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