I have answered the Alone...

by myself in a shared place

They came out in every Form

outlined in undefined space

We were bewildered by this...

this distance of close embrace

All of us separate yet

connected as if by grace

#Loneliness #WorldWidePhenomenon #PartOfHumanCondition #Challenge

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My heart ticks and tocks.

The flutters in my stomach begin

To form rocks in the essence

Of my narrowed gut

And I breathe in an airless breath

As the scented candle in my room

Mitigates the effluvium of loneliness.

I lift my fingers to the bookends that hold

My life together with paper, pens, and

Words I repeat again in realisation.

That's right my lovely dearies, how can

I ever forget Roethke's gasping turtle,

Wishing to cross through rubble,

Or Burns' meadow mouse stampeding

By itself to make a nest for winter?

What to make of the road that Gibson had tread?

Or Wordsworth's cloud upon seeing daffodils?

I forget to remember that I write in solitude.

Where there is quiet, there are thoughts heavier than

Metal, louder than music, carried by soundless tune

And I remember to always forget that we, as people,

Die from bitter loneliness.