When loneliness finds you alone at last
It creeps up, never hitting you like a wave
Instead slowly trickling down your back at best
It doesn't want to drown the only place that's safe
Tenderly, it wraps its tendrils around you
In softly hushed hues of blues and grays
In attempt to comfort the hurt inside you
But there's no quelling the loneliness where it stays
As its colors, its notes are ever hushed
The lone and steady rhythm of a heartbeat
As if the loneliness inside can be crushed
And thrown out with the garbage on the street
It howls like the winds, ringing in your ears
Drowning out your thoughts, your ideas
It raises to new soaring heights your fears
And it never hears your screams, your pleas
But the smells, those are by far the worst
For nothing ever reeks quite in the same way
Like a bubble of joyful company shattered and burst
And a trembling, quaking heart led astray
It fills up your nose, your mouth, your lungs
With an air so bitter, you hardly still want to breathe
If only so the sound of your loneliness can be sung
And your mind in a tiny fragment of rest it will leave
But sometimes, in times at their most extreme
Loneliness will personify, and you two will meet
In its eyes, it will carry the dullest of gleams
And with tears in your own, is the only way to greet
You will take care of it, the best you possibly can
Knowing in the pit of your stomach, it will take an awfully long time
Then at last, you'll find in the night away it ran
Leaving you alone but not lonely, a feeling that doesn't rhyme
But as long as you wait, and try you so might
You'll never forget the moment loneliness came
A good thing, for you have been freed from fright
As you now carry with you strength, in your tiny little frame
Author's Note: Written for Weekly Writing Contest #26 by wallflower_r
