A Song For Alice

she always answered to the name of alice and lived alone in her own reality wandering along a lonely highway- that led to places no one else could see holding conversation with the shadows that drift across the walls of this old home* where the restless voices go on calling- from the corners of her mind where they all roam alice has a visitor this evening- an acquaintance she had known from way back when a sudden understanding grows upon her and she knows they'll be together once again and somewhere under cover of the darkness two spirits slip away into the night in love,by light of moon the silent partners- kiss and simply vanish from all sight a nurses aide is making rounds this morning and she finds her lying by her bedroom door she calls her name but alice doesn't answer- for alice doesn't live here anymore she calls her name but alice doesn't answer- for alice doesn't live here anymore *old folks or nursing home