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Loneliness (revisited)

December 8, 2021
By notesappfiction PLATINUM, Bryan, Texas
notesappfiction PLATINUM, Bryan, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"It's funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, 'I want to go home.' But then you come home, and of course it's not the same. You can't live with it, you can't live away from it. And it seems like from then on there's always this yearning for some place that doesn't exist." - Danzy Senna


I find myself here again,

in this familiar place

known as Loneliness.


I read a poem about a little girl

surviving in a violent world

and I am told that we are all here,

together, in Loneliness.


I am told that

I am not alone in Loneliness,

but that everyone I’ve ever known,

everyone that’s ever lived,

has made a home in Loneliness.


I watch the news

and I am told that we are not alone,

that I am not alone,

that no one is alone—


I do not believe it, I cannot believe it.

Everyone who’s ever lived, and yet here I am,

alone, in my loneliness.


Am I so terribly alone, so violently alone—

Am I so painfully alone, so wretchedly alone,

that even the Lonely have no place for me?


Here I am in Loneliness,

not a soul in sight,

everyone who has ever lived

has walked these streets of emptiness,

But here I stand;

alone in my loneliness tonight.



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