Admitting Loneliness (Spring 2009)

Loneliness rolls over onto its wounded side

As pictures of failed friendships and faded

Relationships sink in the back of the mind.

With every step taken, a face fades into the backdrop.

Living life in snapshots, toss the negatives aside

And forget about all the laughs, all the moments

Between hearts, all the embraces that you once shared.

Where memory lacks, regret crawls into focus

Becoming a visible bed neglected to be made.

The sun begins to rotate and throw the balance

Of black and white into a distant grey.

With this knowledge, there comes understanding

That in the end, we still have our shadows.