Solitude

It's a sad poem, really, and not just for the lost love. Replacing life with television, even for a few brief days of healing, strikes me as sad... and real, in this day and age. But of course we humans have always sought distraction from our pain, have always hidden from it a little bit. It's natural. Then the little bit at the end, when the power fails and you are forced to confront your loneliness in the quiet and the darkness. I liked that bit a lot. It had weight and truth. I'm glad you kept it short, and didn't give us the resolution, made the poem more accessible and universal. Alobar (Just my two cents, spend them on gum if you wish.)

Jessica and sometimes the TV does just create its own artificial cocoon around you and reality comes flooding in when you turn it off. But when it starts to feel like that then it is most definitely time to get back into the stream again! A sad poem indeed but one that very well expresses how loneliness can take hold of you. Hope you are keeping that smile though. lol. Keith

this is very real and easy to relate to.. so many times we mask our problems with the noise of this world.. t.v. is just one way but it is used by many... my t.v. is on right now with no- one watching it... liked your poems ending very much..! Richard

to let you know I've read this poem and did enjoy-

You have an uncanny way of going straight to the heart/center/core/quintessence/nub/crux, and you do it so simply. I am delightfully impressed ... and grateful to you for that ... Yours, Chuck