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The Lonliness System

October 17, 2015
By cemeterybats ELITE, Parker, Colorado
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Loneliness
Stronger than any other "hard time"
Or "rough patch"
Because at least
In those times
You have someone to confide in.
In loneliness
You don't get anyone
You don't get a single person
They don't give you one
They say it'll make you stronger.
no.
NO.
(you have to scream it)
I say SCREW YOU
To those who think it will make us stronger.
Because it does not
It makes us weaker
And everyone knows this.
I do,
You do,
And they know, too.
But they keep going
They keep going to destroy us
And one day, one day my dear
One day they will win
Because loneliness truly does royally suck,
And what have we to show for it?
For whom do we show it to?
Don't you remember-
We have no one.

© Cerys W., Marblehead, MA

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