Loneliness

I'm here… alone... Lonely…
So lonely…
Alone, alone, loneliness is pervading my lonely aloneness
Being alone is sorta like being with people except you're terribly alone.
A barren desert
"Hello loneliness,
I didn't miss you"
Nothing in the distance
Just distance
It never runs out
Can't be exhausted
Somehow there's always more
I thought I found a thing that wasn't loneliness
But I was wrong
I was still alone
Then I found more loneliness
If loneliness were wealth
I might be the richest man
On the planet
But it's not wealth
It's just loneliness
The problem with being alone
Is that you have to do it
By yourself
"There once was a lonely man
Who was alone"
-The end
Except it's not the end
Because he kept being alone
I try to remember not being alone
Nope
That memory got swallowed into the gaping maw
Of loneliness
I tried to give loneliness a drink
But he wasn't there
Son of a b***h keeps trying to turn himself into a metaphor
But then I would at least
Have an abstract concept to keep me company
But I've got nothing
And I am lonely

Reviews

[Wherearemysocks]

We are all lonely at one point.But being lonely for a long time is truly agonizing.I disagree that you have nothing though,afterall you have yourself.

[Lorry]

The one thing in life that is plentiful indeed, never running out or getting bored, ever present and impossible to ignore, even when we try to pretend we have something to do and busy ourselves in ignoring it, it just grows to take up all available space. Even the word lonely sounds lonely if you say it over and over, morphing into the thought "how can a sound I know so well feel alien in my mouth when I say it. Then comes the silence because words all start to feel alien and the peace and quiet of silence gives us all more time to realise how close loneliness can get.

[Delmar Cooper]

Wow, there should be a support group and a twelve step program. You know, a place the lonely could gather and drink.