she sits and she stares
as her life flashes by
backlit by the soft blue
glow of a television
she's alone at dinnertime
determined to wait out her hunger
she sits and she sips
from a glass on the table
content to pretend
that she's not lonely
but she is
you can see it
in the set of her shoulders
the sigh in her chest
her mouth says she's happy
and it has her convinced
that he's all she needs
and all she ever will need
but the hollow beats of her heart
are begging for love
to come fill the space she's created
by pushing everyone else away
she sits and she stares
and she thinks and she dreams
and she laughs and she cries
and she switches the channels
and the streetlights come on
and she convinces herself that
she's not lonely
oh no, she's not lonely at all