Loneliness: A Mental Indisposition

Loneliness is not some chosen path

but an obsession maintained carefully,

analogous to mental disease,

the mental indisposition to let oneself

be loved or feel at ease. Loneliness

bites, it severs our sentiment

and leaves us with poetry in our veins.

Loneliness is not a shelter, it does

not give refuge from the storm.

It is bland, colourless and blind

until spliced open, when it chokes

on the metaphors bubbling underneath.