by Bonnie Moss

Created on: November 11, 2008

Loneliness

it is the emptiness of a room that can not be filled
with music, laughter, wine nor ecstacy.
the cold wind that blows out the flickering light.

a shadow of the past that comes
hauntingly on those cold and rainy nights.
it is the cruel flashes of painful memories.

loneliness is a cheat.
opening wide the portals of tantalizing, exciting
temptation happily offering an escape in the
bottle or solace in the arms of ecstacy only
to leave one deeper in misery.

it is the deafening silence of the night,
the frightening wind of a stormy weather,
the echo of footsteps along isolated
corridors or lonely streets.

loneliness is a haunting melody that vibrates
through the whole being, in waking hours, in sleep,
in dreams.

it is a long stairway to meditation, strewn with
pieces of broken dreams, fragments of a
life that could have been.

it is the yellow streak of jealousy that knits
the heart in misery and pain.
the blank stare at the ceiling, at the far horizon,
loneliness is a fatal blow of frustration,
a rebel in crowded places, amid laughter and song.

Loneliness
you are so much a part of life.
Who has not known your embrace,

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