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Write whatever you like, but it has to be about dealing with soul-crushing loneliness
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Trousers in Poetry & Free Verse

My Condition

Country singer Williams said

"I'm so lonesome I could cry"

Cowboy hat upon his head

To hide the tear inside his eye

Tumbleweed across ghost towns

Where good life used to be

Echoes of laughter's lovely sounds

Of families so happy

Now it's gone that life is spent

Time seems to have no end

Just you inside the room you rent

You're starving for a friend

What you go through

You crave to share

With someone who

Does truly care

But no one's there

Sit in your chair

And rot.

It's lonely at the top it's true!

Look at the pyramids

Lonely hearts club makes me blue

Lonely my condition is