NewPoetry

Gregory Betts

let us, you and I,
rename ourselves loneliness

for loneliness looks at loneliness
and loses itself in loneliness

struggling to say and speak
loneliness in loneliness
loneliness and loneliness

when loneliness lies down
with loneliness
it wakes partial
a lone a line a less

for loneliness needs and breeds
loneliness, like love, hate, fear
all the broken words

that bridge
loneliness to loneliness