Loneliness and Other Feelings I Avoid

Lately, the words “I’m lonely” seem to be on this quiet murmuring track in the back of my brain anytime distractions subside and the fog re-emerges.

I’m lonely. It whispers. My heart beats and it sounds again. I’m lonely

I catch the thought and try to shake it away, and focus on the present, but it comes back into the rhythmic reminder that something is missing.

My loneliness is full of contradictions.

I’m lonely yet I don’t feel like being social.