Alone:
The loneliest word in the dictonary.
All-encompassing,
Packaged into a TV dinner
or in a present for a great aunt
in the nursing home.
It doesn't need company.
It doesn't need a Christmas card.
It never cares about others,
and it doesn't care about you.
Alone in the streets
with other lonely people,
trapped in their seperate world
trying to figure their shit out.
No point in talking to them
because they'll just tell their sad story.
But you know that
you would do the same thing in their shoes.
Being alone is a curse,
a blessing and a necessity;
a cancer, a cold and a headache.
It doesn't need help.
It doesn't need a friend.
It doesn't want me
and it doesn't want you.
So when someone looks alone,
let them be.
Once upon a time,
you were that person too.
You should know,
after eating a TV dinner
or visiting your great aunt
in the nursing home,
that being alone doesn't need company,
or a Christmas card.
It doesn't care about others
and it doesn't care about you.
Author notes
Just my thoughts about being alone and society in general.
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Thanks for the comments guys! I'm glad you liked it! It was something that was on my mind and had to write it down. People only care about their own messes and want to dump them onto other people. It's a twisted way of reaching out and not feeling lonely anymore. But people still feel alone, and it's still the loneliness word.
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This is a really neat poem. You have such an awesome way with words
It is a neat way to look at society. Alone is the loneliest word. Great job!
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I really enjoy this piece, BEA. It evokes powerful emotions with its word use. The imagery is particularily powerful because you're not conjuring up empty words or vague images. You're calling up powerful, specific imagery that punches you in the gut as you're walking down that same road for the hundredth time; whether that road is in your mind or not. I really like the defeated bitterness and cynicism in the middle of the poem that tells the absolute truth: Most people don't care about others problems but want people to listen to theirs. Nicely structured! In another people I'd love to read something that breaks lines awkwardly to break up the structure and rhythm of the poem. IMO
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