Amplified Loneliness Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Sitting in an empty room, next to a telephone, amplifies
my loneliness, as I cry heavily inside.

No one sees that I am in pain, so I suffer here alone,
in prayer, asking God questions and receiving only silence
in reply.

Despair sets in deeply around my soul, leaving me empty
and bare.

Alone in a whole world of people, seeing that there is no
hope for me, causes me to harden inside, freezing my tears,
so they'll never be shed from these eyes.

Lost, hopeless, aimless, wandering around, never finding
love on earth, beginning to die inside.

Burying my soul beneath pain and sorrow of many years,
there are no longer anymore hopes left.

Dried up and gone forever, life has left, a lifeless body
dreading living it's days in a spent and broken body.

Kept alive by only the hurt it suffers from all others,
waiting for this lifeless death, this shell to fulfill it's
meaningful life's purpose.

No longer afraid of being left alone, lying down peacefully
in His arms, never again waking to another day on this earth.