Writing Prompt

We're lonely together

Well, not really together

Your lonely there

I'm lonely here

We feel alone

Like we have no friends

But we do

We have eachother

Because if no one else will pick me

In a room full of people

You will

And you won't make me feel bad

For my beliefs or what I like

And you don't make insults disguised as jokes

I'm alone here

Your alone there

So we're lonely, together

Because my o...

Lonely together

I hear your footsteps come down the hall and I know its you, but its not you.

I can hear in your lumbering gait that there is something else there, the loneliness.

You missed it. Again.

I made dinner and you fell asleep, so I ate alone.

I negotiated the toothbrushing and the pajamas and the bedtime stories, and you snored.

I guess its better than fighting, or me trying to wake ...

I think I loved you

In my way

I shuddered at your beauty

When you bared your soul

Drunk

Happy

Sad

Lovely

I did not flinch

But clamored to you

Your company as sweet

As the cigar smoke on our tongues

Strange that even if I could

Even as I know how we would fit

I would never kiss you

My home and heart is full

But the love isn...

Living together but not.

Coexisting in the same world.

Being a family in just the name.

Alone together, it’s all the same.

Two different lives in the same home.

One might be happy while one is alone.

Saying we need to get out of this town.

Needing action soon or we might drown.

Choosing together but drifting apart.

Slowly losing what started it all.

Floating on the cracked solid ground...

Yea I have friends

And I have a friend group!

I think

It’s hard to tell

I join the conversation and they save me a seat

But when they talk to me ours eyes never meet

They said there was a party

They even said I could come

But the invite never came

And now I feel dumb

Are we friends?

Do you like me?

Or are you just politely tolerating me, hoping that I leave you alone.

I’ll treat you like we’re...

Lovers,

Once together

Never apart

Endlessly,

Lying bare

Youthful,

Time,

Once lonely

Gains someone

Eternally,

Time,

Holding hostage

Endlessly,

Remember....

Together.

With my cigar, your cigarette.

We’ll smoke it out on the porch, the concrete darkened with the cold pitterpattering of the rain.

It’ll fall on my head, my hair sticking to my head as it becomes drenched, then yours will too.

We’ll smoke all our problems away.

When I’m missing my lighter, we’ll crush the drugs and scrape it into a line and snort it up.

I’ll see the world, and you...

Lonely together

For ever and ever

On a deserted beach

Out of reach

Cook each other peaches and quiche

For a while till we die

At least we lie down in the ground with solitude

Gratitude for finding the kindness In each other

Before time smothers our prime of youth

In old age...

Sweethearts that have finally met,

gistening eyes, glimmering inside an empty room,

Empty house, warmed by the sun.

Her’s warmed by his sunny stare.

They’ll watch dust babies collect,

Blown by collective laughs,

Termites gnaw at his bone in mistake for housewood,

She’ll bite carefully too.

Rots seeps where weeds follow,

but conversation never falters,

Her words muffled by hanging skin,

He ca...

Yumiko stood on the roof, an unlit cigarette dangling loosely from her fingers. She couldn't smoke it. She promised Hoshiko that she would drop the habit... besides she had already tried. It would seem a year was indeed enough time to drop a vice because the last time she tried lighting a cigarette it had left the brunette on her knees, gasping for air. It wasn't a panic attack. It wasn't grief. ...