Lonely for a feeling
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You were left short
The bill came too late
When you tried to pay too early.
Iām so lonely for a feeling
I donāt understand
Iām so tired for that feeling
Iām
So afraid of what it can bring
Why do I have to worry
And feel so much
When it comes to such a latent sort of death
No head shot, itās a tumor growing inside,
So very, very small and slow
It pinches at you
It leaps into your thesis
Of pain
But you cannot experiment with it,
It looks like a sad child
And swims like an Olympic champion
And blips on the radar only long enough to make a paranoid impression
Iām so scared
For that feeling
Iām so lonely knowing we all know it,
Every single one of us,
But pretend it is only a matter of time
A phase
Of anti-matter in a collapsing pit of split atoms and white hot stars.
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Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos.
I am Bexley is published by Resurgence Novels here.
The Half Paper Moon is available on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella Carnivorous is to be published by Eukalypto soon! Coming soon
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Wow this blew me away
This is very beautiful and evocative and heartful. One of the best poems I've read in a while.šAnneliese
Lonely for a feeling or feeling lonely? Is there a difference? Stabbing Westward, from the song Save Yourself, always summarized it best for me: "If I must be lonely, I think I'd rather be alone." You scale and mix and match metaphor so effectively, and the description of this feeling like a sad child swimming in a great sea, only detectable by radar! Indeed, the waters of emotion would drown it if it weren't such a great swimmer!
It looks like a sad child And swims like an Olympic champion Omgggg these lines were so deep! Loved your poem Merly!
Would it be safe to say that I've got this sinking feeling & a slowly splitting headache which no one can even see without observing for a very long while?
This is wonderful. This right here "looks like a sad child And swims like an Olympic champion And blips on the radar only long enough to make a paranoid impression." Damn. That's quite a vision. Well done.