A Lonely Alcoholic Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Longing for friendship, finding life has no friends to
speak of.

Existence fading in the distance, allowing nothing to
grasp hold of it.

Nothing slows down, everything gets rolled along,
pressing deep upon a heart, pushing loneliness inside
to feed a hurting pride.

Formerly giving way to everyone else's wishes and needs,
not caring about it's own.

Delving way down inside, touching the mysteries of life
untold.

Feeling pain and sorrow which has always been put on hold,
now coming forth, spilling anguished anger in drops, all
over.

Spelling out the loneliness in tears etched upon a face of
a human being.

Totally ignored - forgotten - left out in the cold, a
heart turns hard and falls like granite, deeper inside
the soul of a being.

Scratching, tearing, ripping apart a once whole person,
leaving behind a shell of someone no one ever said I love
you to.