my friend, the wooden chair

i looked at the empty chair next to me

and wondered what it would look like

if it were not so empty.

but then i realized

that i didn't want it to be occupied,

its emptiness and mine,

for if it were

i would have no friend to share my lonliness.

Reviews

[Gordon]

Nicely done... I like to take an inanimate object and personify it. You do it quite well here. It's right up my ally and I think you hit a homerun with the concept.

It's a simple poem but its depth is what captivates the reader. Nice job! Finally, a winning poem worthy of the spot.

Congrats!

[Adela Muresan]

This poem, reminds me of one those emo pics with a little ,,phantom,, guy who talks to a snail.
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Anywayz, I think you expressed in this poem how people desperately need to love something, in the absence of someone.
Good write.

A.M.

[DiamondNRough AKA Patty..]

We are so good sometimes at pushing people away, but then in the end we look around and that's when we find we are lonely. I like how you used the metaphor of the empty chair as an empty life.

[Vanessa]

What an interesting ending.

I felt some connection to the words, which made it all the more beautiful.
And.. without sounding so proper, I loved it.

//Vanessa Alyse

[Rambling Prose]

A stark realization of the depths of loneliness and the old clich� - "misery likes company"....

Short and to the point, however, I think you might have inadvertently omitted a word in this line:

"that i didn't want to be occupied," - I assume this due to the line following, that you meant to insert - that (it) didn't want to be occupied?

~nicely done~

[Legion]

How sad and very poetic. What an image. Kudos.