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The specter of loneliness

November 13, 2021
By Moonwallflower GOLD, Maple Ridge, Columbia
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Moonwallflower GOLD, Maple Ridge, Columbia
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Favorite Quote:
You can be very wild and still be very wise.<br /> - Yoko Ono

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Absence, what an extravagant guest.

With its ghostly manners and its eerie clothes

Here is a disguise

that alone, I consider

Alas, the problem of solitude

is that it wanders here and there,

always exclude


And so even though I could close my eyelids,

for this curious character to be briefly forgotten,

A question still threaten

What dreams would await me in my restless sleep?

Perhaps, the blurred image of a little girl

Sitting on a lone swing - see how it whirl

Shrill creaking of tired chains

- a dangling complaint

The emptiness under her feet

A void, a nothingness

that does by no means exist

And yet, and yet...

In my chest I feel it

The specter of loneliness

humming its old song.

© Ashley W., Port Charlotte, FL

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ElaM ELITE said...
on Sep. 17 2022 at 7:01 pm
ElaM ELITE, Surrey, Columbia
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I love the silence of solitude