Whispers In My Head

Too many of us understand loneliness.

Alone
I hear the silent whispering
Of thoughts come unbidden
Secret caresses
Of suppressed desires
Voices of willfully forgotten things
They tell me what I should have been
What I could have changed
What-ifs fill the empty air
Where other voices should have been
I have no friends to confide in
No sympathetic ear
I can't abide the loneliness
It strangles out my voice
Crippled of my will to speak
I can't find anyone who will listen
Lost in the tempest
Of thoughts I can't control
I begin to understand
I can't change anything at all

Author's Note

Loneliness; the pervasive disease in technologically advanced countries.