It’s a person sitting next to me A shadow lingering close by Following me around
It’s a soul I know by heart Every inch, but somehow I still don’t Know a single thing
It’s a thorn I found, or made Amongst other people’s roses I never bothered to touch it
It mocks me sometimes, When it gets tired of my sadness When I feel alone in a crowd
It has now become a friend I’ve learned and grown to like it I embrace its cold comforting arms
And somehow, this peculiar soul It has taught me to love Solitariness, and myself.
So I read a post on Humans of New York (one of my favourite sites/pages), and this girl was talking about loneliness, and how it's like a person 'always sitting next to her', and how she had grown to like it. This poem was inspired by that post, because I found her story to be beautiful :)