L

There’s loneliness

that creeps oh for
so long of a time
behind me

lurks like a shadow
even in the darkest
of the night
it’s the blackest
of all the blacks

I say to him
shoo, go away
but he never left
he never will

he says to me
I’ll stay with you
I can’t leave you
I am you

now the irony
the lonelier I get
the lonelier
I come to be

I shut my door
creep on the bed
all accompanied
by dear loneliness.