Loneliness

Sharon Card, Kelowna

Loneliness - God knows the pain
I hurt too much to write.
The hole is deep and once again
I'm just too lost to fight.

My pen seems dry, or is it me?
Oh God! I'm slowly dying.
Is this what life is meant to by?
Those tears! Is that me crying?

I'm scared, I think, I cannot feel -
Where do I go to find
A hand to hold until I peel
This thickness from my mind?

I want to look at life and smile;
How numb I am with pain!
Can't someone hold me for awhile
And soothe my world again?

Loneliness - you feel it too?
My voice is just an echo.
Are you there? Is that you?
How silent is my shadow!

Pull the curtain on this strife
And leave me for a minute.
I'm twisted in my search for life,
I just can't find ME in it.

Nothingness - it seems to cry,
A shell without a heart.
A shattered dream - to live or die?
Once whole - I've come apart!