Still on your park bench, sad letters all around. I think @PeppyPatti the coals you rekindled, have summoned the lonely hearts from afar to seek warmth and share pain.
@Rollon @PeppyPatti and @Oaktree @Appleblossom Families, fathers, youngest sons, daughters estranged,
Break ups n divorce.. Your pains, a whole lot worse than mine. The street has only, competitors..
No real friends and family to mourn
@Dolphin1 15.. and @Lila3 in your secret garden. Your letters captured for me the essence of a kind of salvation that works for some, like us. Thankyou. Loneliness spans all , from this bench,
to the ivory towers that shade it. Sleep found me eventually on your park bench and I woke with
my feelings in my hand.
LONELINESS.
Yesterdays papers down cold empty streets
winters wind whisks paper stands.
Dogs of despair with nothing to bark at
Cold comforts news paper gloved hands.
Flickering neon's protesting the damp
Tattered moths fooled by the false
Icy blue light depraving the night
Psychoses the fear quickened pulse.
A time when as youths
Sweethearts in phone booths
Laughed back that winters death stare .
Old sodden in sin
Keeps raining within
No phone calls
No letters
Despair..
Holed shoes shuffling rings through the grease pools
Down lanes night lovers once walked.
Memories on bar stools
Closed ears to old fools
Bare park bench where secrets one stalked.
Deprived of a chance too crippled to dance
Born from our withdrawal wombs.
She wrapped still born child
In a centre fold smile
Ghosts scarred with rusty spoon wounds.
My one person que
For damper n cold stew
and black coffee left to go cold.
On lonely hearts pages
Ghosts freed from the rages
Now welcomes us into their fold..
Newspapers wrapped around cheap hot meal chips
The oil aglow on our poverty lips
Death notice page races
From cruel winds embraces
Hunger and loneliness carved into faces
Caressed by lost loves finger tips..
And that's what loneliness looks like as a street kid. Thankyou for enduring.
@saturnzoon @cloudcore @StuF @greenpea @Glisten @SmilingGecko @Tilz
@Meowmy @Shaz51 @ENKELI @Historylover @Jynx @PinkFlamingo @Healandlove
@Adge n @Doldip15 thankyou.. and everyone who shares this lonely bench. tonys.. mb1
