As I Feared Poem by Maria Williams

Listen.
Or more importantly? Understand
Loneliness:
The word makes me
Shudder.
Ache
Calling out
Can you? Hear
Or more, Importantly
Can you, understand?
Let me:
Speak
I am being drowned
Suffocated
In what?
I once loved
People surround,
Me:
Me in the center
Or better yet?
Me in the Black
Hole.
Sweeping me
Away.
As if it mattered
Stolen from, an Illusion
Can you? Understand
It is. As
I feared,
Loneliness