Heart & Imagination

Lonely

Have you ever felt lonely even when you've your family around? Or even when you've some friends around? Ever wanted someone like a true, real friend to be with you at those times? Ever had someone like that and miss them now? Ever gotten tired of the endless plans being made and traps being laid out in the world? Ever wanted to escape somewhere all alone with the person whom we talked of in the previous lines? Ever felt lonely with all these emotions in your heart?

Being alone is one thing
Being lonely is another...
It is like having a dark cloud over your head
While everywhere else, it is a sunny weather.

The feeling creeps on me in the strangest of times...
'Strange' because, according to the world, I have everything I need.
But I would give it all away readily
If in return, I can get someone to whom I could speak...

Speak without thinking of what (s/)he'd think of me,
Speak of every feeling boiling in my heart - whether sad or happy.
Someone who'd make me smile and laugh,
Someone I could hug without a cost.

A friend or a lover,
It doesn't really matter...
What's in the name,
When it's the person who matters?

It's hard to find such a person in the world
And when I do fine one, it's hard to keep him (/her) with me forever.
Instead, the world is filled with people who'd laugh when you fall...
Where every mistake is recored, to be recalled later.

I live in a world where people want to be better than everyonw else,
A world where our faults are noticed before our strengths,
Where life is very much like a game of chess,
And you've to think before you even speak, because one wrong word could make your life a mess!

How can I not feel lonely?
How can I not want to cry without a reason?
Why do we need a reason to be happy,
When our hearts feel sad, at times, for, apparently, no reason?