In a Hotel Room

Why did they go? They always go, Whether they saw me I simply don’t know, They’re here for a night and then go away, And leave me behind, all alone I must stay, And wait for the loved ones to whom I belong, But I’ve been waiting now for ever so long, I’m starting to think that they’ll never return, But I remember those faces so full of concern, On the day that I fell into the old hotel pool, I never did master swimming at school, But somehow I pulled myself out from the deep, And came back to this room where my parents did sleep, My Mother’s blue eyes had turned red with her tears, Just as any mother’s whose child disappears, I don’t understand why they just didn’t see, That I was standing there just where I should be, Then they were gone, leaving me here in this room, Sometimes full of life, sometimes cold as the tomb, Why did they go? They always go.