Loneliness

Loneliness can be the feeling of

Having no one much there to care

As well as that sense that those around you

Do not really see or feel

Into the depths of you

Loneliness may be contained

In frozen memories of a past

Where you met the brick wall of defence

A feeling bereft wilderness

Instead of the open arms

Of acceptance, understanding and love

A hurtful screen of anger or apathy

Instead of a mirror

Leaving you to feel you were

So far from home

Or falling through space

Loneliness can haunt the now

Even when there is a room full of people

Calling out your name

Because of the doubt

Is it really you they see?

Loneliness always asks something

Of us

A presence with what is

Rising up

A way of being that says

‘Yes’

Even as every single old memory

Of being unmet

Shouts

‘No’

Loneliness asks of you

Is there anyone home

Deep inside your soul

To feel

Embrace and fully own

The myriad expressions and reflections

Of the truth of your soul