the worst pain isn't hunger,
it isn't freezing, or burning,
it isn't stabbing or slashing,
it isn't physical
it isn't confusion, or ignorance
it isn't being lost, or clueless,
it isn't not understanding
it isn't loss, the death of a
friend,
it isn't the things that escaped
your grasp,
it isn't the thing you once held.
it isn't anger, or revenge,
it isn't the bitterness or
resentment,
it isn't the jealousy that eats
inside,
the worst pain, the pain that
doesn't bite,
doesn't sting, the pain that is
always dull,
despairingly dull and numb,
that is always overwhelming -
that never fully goes away, that
will always scare us - is lonliness
the greatest pain, is no one
knowing, and no one caring,
it is when your life goes by with
actions without meaning
for with lonliness, comes
irrelevance, the realization that pain means nothing.
and that nothing, it consumes, it
latches onto us like a parasite that we foster, that we hold onto, and pretend
to find necessary.
For love we hunger, we burn, we
freeze,
we humble, we confuse, we lose,
for love we forgive, we forget,
for love we live,
but for the lonliness, we nothing.
