Loneliness is
Shattered glass sprinkled across the pavement
when the snow covers the earth
The froth crawling across the beach
or vacant seaweed drifting out to the ocean
It is the silence of a broken house
Still,
Dense,
Yet loneliness, too, is noise
Endless static
Boiling water left unattended
A starved rodent, sleeping
A waking nightmare
Loneliness is –
