When Loneliness Becomes Your Partner 02 Poem by Mario, Lucien, Rene Odekerken

It sits beside you in the quiet,
fills the empty spaces between breaths.
No need for words, no need for touch
-
just presence, heavy and familiar.

It walks with you through silent streets,
waits at the table where no one joins,
whispers in the dark when sleep won't come,
a voice you know too well.

At first, you resist,
counting shadows, chasing echoes.
But one day, you stop running,
and loneliness takes your hand-
not a stranger, but a companion.