Alone

One day I was sitting in the center of a field surrounded by everyone in the world. As time passed together the people around me began to leave first millions and then by the hundred-thousands, ten-thousands, thousands, and hundreds. I was soon accompanied by everyone I had ever met and they all said hello at the same time. I waved and watched them begin to fade. Slowly but surely the bodies of first-time acquaintances and people I nodded at in hallways began to dissipate. Soon it was only my friends, friends and friends defined loosely. But even the latter were soon gone, melting into the ground like wax in the summer. My true friends now stood around me. The wind now roared and howled and like corpses in battle they crumbled away.

I lied back in the grass and sighed, as the sun clocked out to make way for the night crew.

I was finally alone.