A Staid and Stodgy Loner | A Poem by Jeff Riley

I've always known I'd always be
a staid and stodgy loner.
In social life I'd have no wife,
a wanderer and roamer.

Nothing in my life's blind push has
changed this path for me.
I only deal with fate's cold feel
a failure all can see.

Alas for me it cannot be
my hopes and dreams do fade.
I age now as all humans must
accepting what is laid.

I choose the peace of only one
who fails and lives a goner.
My saddened bane I do remain
a staid and stodgy loner.