Challenge
Describe the Feeling of Being Alone
Describe the feeling of being alone.
ego death
someone else in the mirror;
i'm sad, but worse:
i'm lonely
and while sadness has grabbed me
by the throat
before,
loneliness i've never held
it turns out its hands are cold,
as expected
but colder still are its fingernails
as they dig into my palm,
as they scrape across my back,
as they break skin
my loneliness and i,
we’re in the mouth of a volcano
does it mean anything that it’s dormant?
it still draws blood, like magma,
it still threatens death
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