I Live On The Other Side Of My Own Loneliness Poem by Shalom Freedman

I Live On The Other Side Of My Own Loneliness



I live on the other side of my own loneliness
No one else can enter there
Only my dreams-
They do not stay with me either-
It is lonely on the other side of my own loneliness
No one else is there.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: loneliness
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Liza Sudina 05 April 2017

There is always your Angel-guardian shining like a gem! you are never alone.

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Daniel Brick 05 April 2017

This strikes as a perfect poem. Its brevity enhances it; more lines would dilute the impact of those first 4 lines which say everything necessary. I love the VOLTA in line 4. Just when we think the speaker has found a haven in his dreams, he tells us with steely stoicism they too abandon him to solitude. And so his life is two lanes: Loneliness and Solitude. This is indeed an existential crisis.

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Shalom Freedman

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Troy New York
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