Loneliness soars within me,
Spreads its wings – higher, higher.
Clear windows are in my mind opaque
Mosquito netting solid as prison bars
Shapeless walls rise
Around me. Every person
Flitting around me,
Ghostly. Hollow.
Shadowy questions, murky answers,
I listen without hearing, talk without speaking.
Day by day, loneliness soars higher.
Day by day
I fall deeper.
