LONELINESS

i can hear people everywhere
talking and laughing
all of their happy voices
carry down to me
and yet its only
echoes of long ago
when my presence
was noticed and appreciated

the world is
empty and lifeless
like a deep void
there are no thoughts of love
in a vortex of nothingness
i live daily in agony
my soul is oblivious
to the real world

i'm starving for companionship
yet pushing the whole world away

is earth worth saving?
or should destruction
be helped along
my mind, my body, my soul
and my very being
are being smothered
more and more
with each passing day