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Sep 2015
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 :)
Liis Belle
Written by
Liis Belle  London, England
(London, England)   
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   Joanne Heraghty
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