I am the embodiment of loneliness today

It seeps through my cells like sand through waves of nothingness

There is nothing to do, nothing to say to it

Loneliness came to soothe my soul

Like a pavement on earth

Which nature dissolves in time

All in time, for it is in time

I am not

I am .

The eye of the storm is where I am

Slowly touching the permeable walls of loneliness

Fingers sparkle like fireflies in the night sky

Like meteors about to disappear in the void

And the world feels beyond, though the world feels within

I am in the eye of the storm, nothing to do, nothing to say

Breathing in the fresh and ancient breeze of loneliness

Penetrating all my cells like a welcomed guest

Who am I to deny its presence?

For even without me, it swirls and swings underneath, above and within

Like a sound moving left to right wanting to be heard, seen and touched

And who am I to deny its flavoursome and tender, warm embrace?

“I love you behind closed doors

I love you when you open them

I love you.

That’s why I came”, loneliness whispers with a gentle smile on its face.

“Welcome my friend”

And so we stay together until we depart, for all come and go,

Pick me up and put me down

Transformed yet again.