The Cost of Education

Solitude, o solitude
In thine arms I rest.
Your love weighs ever-faithful
on my heavy-laden breast.

Solitude, my loyal friend,
steadfast, will never leave me.
For I seek truth and trust no thing,
and you are not deceiving.

Solitude, you're here to stay,
and the invitation's come from me.
For climbing up this tower high
leaves me with no company.

Because knowledge is your brother
and wisdom is your wife,
we've grown close the years I've lived with them
(Which is to say, my life).

So keep climbing with me (we can't stop now),
companion ever true,
to look out over tops of mountains,
where air is thin and friends are few.