Sometimes loneliness is a gift. <br />It allows our minds to reflect and drift. <br />To evaluate who it is we are. <br />What our wishes mean to us... <br />And the depth of our dreams, <br />When loneliness descends. <br /> <br />Our desire to be free of this 'entrapment' <br />Is encouraging! <br />Once it is realize 'why' we feel this way. <br />And 'what' the efforts are to deliver us, <br />From only seeing ourselves mirroring a sadness. <br />Knowing that a trust hidden, <br />Awaits to deliver gladness that arrives... <br />Eventually! <br />To inspire our hearts to thrive on new adventures! <br />This can not be who it is that we are. <br />A frowning face that takes a place, <br />Becoming too comfortable with a loneliness sitting. <br /> <br />It is unfamiliar, <br />When first viewed. <br />And expressed upon our faces. <br />Clearly not subdued. <br />That is why it draws all of our attention to it! <br />And others too. <br />This loneliness that visits. <br />Because it is allowed. <br />Until we walk away from it. <br />Freeing it from its welcome. <br />Leaving it as something seen... <br />Like a foe that pops up on the scene. <br />But not to be accepted with a warm embrace. <br />We can move away from it IF we so desire! <br />If we inspired a happiness within us to surface! <br />It can and should be replaced. <br />Erasing... <br />This loneliness, <br />We can dismiss. <br />To acquire a more sweetened taste... <br />From a life of bitterness, <br />An aloneness made can trace!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-loneliness-that-visits/
