How Lonely Is Your Life Today Poem by Kevin Patrick

How Lonely Is Your Life Today

Rating: 5.0


The mailbox is brimming
with letters
flooding the floor
with junk mail and bills
the TV is blaring
a cacophonous row
perpetually tuned
to the same channel now
the lights are all on,
from all hours of dawn
yet the blinds are closed
like eyes of a corpse
as a stench... that's entrenched
in walls and floors
bleeds through the air
like a slaughterhouse newborn
still know one knows or even cares...
where you are...
anymore....

how lonely is your life today?

Friday, February 10, 2023
Topic(s) of this poem: lonliness,isolation,suicide
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Rose Marie Juan-austin 22 February 2023

Your closure line is so touching and grips every reader. To my favorites.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 22 February 2023

So deeply poignant and I hope that if we know someone or if a member of our family is undergoing this predicament, we have to reach out and extend care or support.

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 22 February 2023

Kevin, you have brilliantly and vividly depicted loneliness and isolation that can lead to suicide. There are a lot of cases nowadays and in fact suicide t tremendously increases every year.

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Kevin Patrick 22 February 2023

Thanks Rose! Its partially inspired by my life and people I know. Sometimes leaving your home is like leaving safety and entering a horror movie. Yet staying can be a prison. Thank you for your comments!

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LeeAnn Azzopardi 22 February 2023

Kevin reading this reminds me that I am not alone

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M.J. Lemon 22 February 2023

There is something so very profound in these words. I am reminded that the volume of junk mail often represents, inversely, one's social worth and real, human, contacts. This goes to myfavourites.

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