Poems on Loneliness.

  Loneliness is  
encased in a tomb
of concrete
unable to feel ,full.
unable to feel,complete.
You feel like a phantom limb.
feel dismembered
feel disconnected
a lone star in the night sky
fading each time an eye,turns away from you
or to you.
Loneliness is the background noise
of the human condition.
Stolen happiness.
Stolen like a sausage by a seagull.
to go home alone is agony
to wake alone is agony.
the unbearable weight of your own company.
loneliness is life becoming a prison
stocks, chains, the boots,the works.


2. I could never
understand
Sartre's
"Hell is other people"
because my idea
of paradise
is populated
with people
especially my favourites
but otherwise
friendly strangers.

3. I can't
understand
a character like Bukowski
it is much cooler
to be misanthropic
than lonely
but then again
I have never tried
to court coolness
like it was the women
everyone wanted to be with
but didn't dare try speak to.

4.  I sometimes think
I am a pillar of stone
Invincible
unmoveable
IRON WILL
yet
when something
or worse
someone
hurts me
turns out
I'm a pillar of salt
and easily
crumble.