The pangs of separation

Far too many people confuse being alone with loneliness, but separated from someone whom you care deeply for can engender loneliness.

By Stanley Collymore

 

I do feel alone but in no way lonely; nevertheless the

rhythmic balance of assuredness that has always

characterized my life, which I’m openly proud

of, and have always quietly but resolutely

encouraged has quite surprisingly been

critically assailed by recent events:

not least of them the unforeseen

entrance of you into my life

and in a manner that only

a short while previously

I would have sworn

was practically impossible. Now with forced

circumstances causing you to be away

from me and leaving me here alone

I think of nothing else but you,

because I miss you so much.

Oh the tortuous pangs

of separation!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

20 January 2011.