Posts tagged “loneliness”

Feeling isolated. Someone take me to lunch.

On the dancefloor I feel free, until I catch myself from above and see it for what it is: desperate plumage, bright feathers flashing. I want to be left alone. I want you to fight for me. I don't know why I make it so hard.

A poem about the quiet contradiction of shyness: wanting connection but fearing it, holding my tongue while hoping someone turns my way and sees me anyway.

A poem about a woman who never quite fits in, invisible at school, overlooked socially, finding hollow comfort in church work and family visits while longing for real intimacy. She goes on dates that lead nowhere. She dies alone. It's bleak, but honestly, it needed saying.

A poem about serial one-night-standers seeking connection through sex but finding only emptiness. Skilled at seduction, hopeless at intimacy, they keep returning to the meat market, alone despite never sleeping alone. You can't see another's heart by groping in the dark.

A poem about an ordinary, invisible boy nobody noticed. No tragic ending, no special qualities, just a reminder that everyone has depth if you bother to look, and that loneliness is more common than we admit.

A poem about feeling unique and misunderstood, longing for connection while holding myself apart. I wonder if being special means being alone, and whether it's time to stop standing apart and just fall back into the arms of humanity.

A poem about breaking out of isolation and connecting with others. Stop hiding in your shell, get out there, share a glance, feel the crowd, make human contact. Life hurts when you live it alone.