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Write a poem exploring feeling alone while surrounded by people.
Consider space and pace when writing this poem.
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I go through these phases where I feel completely distant from everyone around me
I feel drained with any interaction
I feel
Small
I don’t know what to make of this
How to stop this from happening
It just feels like a part of me now
Like this is just meant to happen
But
Why?
The moon has its own phases too
It becomes full and everyone stops in their
tracks to ...
I’m sitting in this car
burning eyes tracking
The skinny girls
with their shiny legs
and shinier smiles
I stare
with eyebrows messier
than the blood pooling
beneath the skin of my knees
purple, yellow, green
hanging onto their conversations
by the skin of my teeth
They let me in
a door cracked open
Just far enough that my form
misshapen and awkward
can get through
They let me talk;
Trotting ...
All hope is lost but at what cost .
They all laughed and said I was daft.
But it’s not a joke I can’t cope , I feel like I walking on a tight rope .
My life not fair !
But no one aware or maybe they just don’t care . They just sit there and stare .
They show up with a smile but behind my back spread there lies . my humiliation there prize as I try to disguise my cries .
Each day you made ...
Words hit my head like they’re muffled by pillows.
I see the same world that you do,
But I’m not here.
I’m
Never
Here.
My friends are making casual conversation.
I probably just seem spacy.
It doesn’t matter,
I’ll be good,
I’ll smile and nod.
Sometimes nobody sees me.
sometimes
nobody
sees
me.
Am I an echo?
Do I bounce back your words like a cavernous wall?
What would it take for me to ...
I reach out,
Pull my hand back.
I’m meant to die like this.
My heart hurts.
I feel empty.
You reach out,
Trying to help me out
Of this.
I can’t take it.
I won’t burden you.
I feel guilty.
Some… no, many people have it worse.
So many people need more help than me.
That breaks my heart.
So I bury it.
Bury it underneath
My smile
No one can help
You ask if I’m better
That pushes me deeper
Can...
I dance alone
In a darkened Corner of the dance floor.
I dance alone
Although, mortals dance about in a energetic soar
I dance alone
Dancer of time and space
I dance alone
Dancing my own pace
I dance alone
Lost in thought
To cease the yesterday of fraught
I dance to forget the “Magic man”
Who shattered my soul
I dance alone
Pondering “Whom the bells toll”
I dance alone
For healing and to d...
“My solitude does not depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude, without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
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Mindless chatter, a ceaseless stream,
Hollow words of empty dreams.
False grins, false mirth, yet they question why
I abstain from their discordant, shallow tie.
I dig for substance in their smiles
To make...
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