but tied to it is hope

the desire to be alone goes all the way down to my bones

it is not a want but a need

I let it be believed that it is an illness

tripped up by gut brainstorming that’s caused by mind to go dark

it’s not that

but the truth will cause issue pain to another and I want for not that

either more than

so I will my self to stay calm to remain focused on sympathies other than my own

to twine care to the rope of this neediness so that it’s pull is not quite so taut

I can know that someday hopefully soon this desire will come true

the perspective will clear and maybe even I will remember what it is I am doing here

surrounded by others maddening habits presupposed assumptions regurgitated

as if the same old me is standing in front of them amidst these new wrinkles and spots

burping up the same old story newly veneered in a fine sheen of acceptance