"Not withstanding" - from Rhymes Lost to Reason: The poetry of Peter Elyakim Taussig

Not Withstanding

In the end you sleep alone

Notwithstanding who you sleep with

And see yourself alone

Notwithstanding who you’re seeing

In the end you lie alone,

In state, or in the gutter,

Not withstanding all the tears

That shared your bed

And the ones now standing

All around it.