Our loneliness: for surely we all share
this terrible, intractable affliction;
to make its burden easier to bear,
for some of us the answer is addiction,
while others will surround themselves with friends
and claim that they are wholly unaffected;
for those it seems the party never ends --
despair will strike when it is least expected.
But some will seek this doleful, wistful state,
preferring their own thoughts as a companion.
They seek to mold, to contour, to create --
their isolation like the deepest canyon,
or loneliest of islands in the ocean,
the water deep but drained of all emotion.
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