Are you lonely? I am
lonely.
Let us share our loneliness together.
Let us shout our fears and reservations
to the highest hills
and the lowest valleys.
I am scared of you are scared of me.
Let’s be scared together
and jump around the fire, primordial
hoots and yaps.
Indignation for the unknowable.
2 responses so far ↓
1 jredfearn09 (jredfearn09) // May 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Hey Ben,
Your poem reminded me of a passage I read in Thomas Dumm’s book, “Loneliness as a Way of Life”, which I think you might enjoy:
“The lonely self will always be with us now, an elemental part of our human being. It is a fact too late to be helped. Yet as long as we continue to exist, we may also come to realize that as alone as we are, we are not only alone. Being aware of our paths to conversion, to the changes we may make in the writing of our lives together and apart, to the aversion of what so many of us call conversion, cheers me and encourages me, even in the face of our common catastrophe. That we do not know our next step does not mean that we are lost. It only means that we have yet to find ourselves.”
2 dolphinflogger (bbabbott09) // May 10, 2008 at 3:16 pm
thanks man…i’m impressed you pulled that out. i really like the quote, its pretty much what i was trying to say.
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