Loneliness

A quick description of the feeling of loneliness

Loneliness

A shadow looming over you, never in direct sight but always there behind you, biding its time to strike 

 

It attacks, not to consume you but to surround you in its veil of darkness 

 

As it does the world grows dark and no light can seep through the dense shadow, any search for this light is fruitless

 

As you try to fight this shadow and remove the veil with no success, you feel a cold presence around you like an icy mist

 

The warmth you seek alludes you through the journey of this shadow, the only warm present is your own that is being sapped away from you very slowly 

 

As you reach for anything in this darkness, anything you can cling to in this broken world, you find nothing but solitude as the shadow grows darker

 

You feel a hand on your shoulder, it’s familiar touch that you have longed for as you so desperately try to remove the shadow to no avail 

 

As you touch this hand you see the shadow reseed, you grasp this hand as you turn to see a face that your ecstatic to see and you embrace them with all you might

 

Loneliness 

 

A shadow-like being so unwelcome yet a feeling so familiar for all of us, it looms in the background waiting to consume you once again

 

One day it will consume the world for one last time for you and it will stay with you until this world is unfamiliar to you and you are unfamiliar to the world you so desperately cling too 

 

The excitement for that day radiates throughout it, this does not make you fear it but makes you even more aware of its intent and.......

 

It’s hunger

Author's Note

A first real attempt at poetry

Reviews

[Curtis.Lenker]

This poem is beautiful. A great way to describe what loneliness feels like. Well done and well written. Great job here.

[John the Baptist]

Quite insightful, considering this is a first attempt. Although the theme is loneliness, it could also serve as an apt description of depression. Keep writing.

PS: consider a spell check on word 5 of verse 5 and word 8 of verse 7.