Touching Loneliness

Each loneliness is its own loneliness,
inner landscape of deprivation,
of wishes dismissed, of hopes that bite deep
with sharp teeth of intricate frustration

loneliness can scream and refuse to hear,
it can turn a deaf and a deadened ear
on itself, turn its back and then revolve
until it is too dizzy to stand up

loneliness can mix dullness and drama,
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