Reflections: Loneliness

by Belinda Beasley

During the past few years of my life, I have lived with feelings of intense loneliness. It seems to me that after I moved away from my home state that people were no longer interested in taking time to form genuine relati...read more

by Mystique Rose

Alone...again. Deep, gut-wrenching spasms rip my insides until mere shreds remain...the pain is overwhelming. It intensifies until it hurts so much I can't stand straight. I double over and I am once again held tightly in ...read more

by L M Harriot

I didn't feel single until I got the train home. It was one of those Fridays when I had spent all day thinking about getting the first goddamn train out of this city and getting straight into bed just as soon as the day wo...read more

by Mark Weaver

The darkness spreads through the room, looming gray shadows that lurk during the day, but which sneak out at twilight and overtake at dusk. With the setting sun comes the wraiths of my imagination that haunt the empty spac...read more

by Margaret White

TO GO ALONE My eyes are stained with tears of blood and my heart bleeds from a blazing fiery passion. All my hopes and dreams go up in a dancing mass of smokeless nothing. My knees are twitching on this green...read more

by Edward F Orciuch Jr

I'm just a lonely piece of driftwood on the ocean of life. How often we have felt that way. Loss of a job or a loved one due to their death. Or the lack of a spouse or a committed relationship. Yet loneliness can be a bles...read more

by AJ Stephenson

I'm in my thirties now, I'm at a time in my life when I should be settled and happy, in reality I'm neither. I'm unsettled, I'm bored, I'm miserable and I'm unbelievably lonely. I feel like a little bit of a fraud writin...read more

by Raya Chowdhury

There's a difference between being alone and loneliness, I was told by someone not so important. I shrugged that thought off, thinking, what the hell is he talking about? Now I know. I am alone. I'm happy being alone...read more

by Louis Wesley

I suppose there are different kinds of loneliness. The kind one experiences when a partner passes away. Take my Mom for instance; my dad died suddenly in 1984. By todays standards my Mom wasn't "old" when he passed. She wa...read more

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by Shyam Saksena

Loneliness and Solitude My dad was not only a Professor of Philosophy, but he answered more or less to the stereotype of an absent-minded professor. This caused much amusement within the family and among friends and his...read more

by Alexa Lurie

"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Sir Francis Bacon I am ...read more

by Jackson Buckle

A Summer of Solitude As a child, I was often alone. Not from lack of care from my parents, nor the fact that children at school mostly didn't like me either. It arose from the far more simple reason that I lived far eno...read more

by Paul Yap

Loneliness is like staring up at the night sky and seeing a single star faintly twinkling in the night. Trying to reach out to touch another soul and find nothing there. To feel the strange emptiness of missing facets ...read more

by Daphne Lam

I was lonely being next to the love of my life. He had become a stranger. He dodged reality. He was either out, sleeping, or staring at the TV. He was here, but not here. What happened to the tenderness, the smiles, t...read more

by Yvette Durham

The familiar screech of the opening porch door remains stony silent. My mind plays cruel tricks on me, for I almost breathe that sound into life and foolishly dart from my computer desk chair to the bedroom window. Like ...read more

by Rachel Dreyden

See me. That's all I ask. Just see me. Don't look through me, don't look beyond me. When you look my way, simply see me. I am almost gone, and fading fast. I will be invisible before you know it, before you even noti...read more

by Beth Barany

The Solitary Writer and the Community Are you working alone at a computer? Do you face the blank screen or page on a regular basis? If you answered yes, then you are not alone. The community of writers spreads out acros...read more

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by Camisha Williams-Ferguson

A Night of Venting I now realize that it is not them, it is me. It's not that they aren't willing to go without my dinner, on the contrary, they are. It's not that they won't do what I ask of them. Usually nine and a...read more

by Jayasekar Pillai

Loneliness... what we in reality connote by loneliness? Being alone? Being alone in a jungle? Being alone in a relationship? Being alone in a creature battle? Being alone in a rivalry? Being alone in receipt of the love? B...read more

by Ellen Kudlicki

I see her at seven. Scabbed knees, plaid skirt, button up shirt with part of the tail hanging out, she stands there watching the other children. They have history. Their families know each other. They go to the same church...read more