(Source: valhallarealm)
Alone
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were- I have not seen
As other saw- I could not bring
My passions from the same common spring-
From the source I have not taken
My sorrow- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I lov’d- I lov’d alone-
Then- in my childhood- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain-
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lighting of the sky
As it pass’d me flying by-
From the thunder, and the storm-
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view-
-Edgar Allan Poe