My Loneliness

A Poem

Though I have many people around me
But I feel and think that I am still alone
I wish I could open my mouth, tell everything
But to be frank tell me who will listen?
I have silence as my best and close friend
With whom I’ve nothing to hide nor pretend
I don’t have to tell it a word or anything at all
But still it knows me as well as I know
It from the beginning till end
Sometimes, my loneliness brings out the best
In me
At times, it haunts me like a ghost and even tries
To kill me
I don’t know whether it is a curse or a gift
But, it does appear alternatively in shift
I try my best to run away as far from it
But, for every hundred steps I take
It catches up with me with just one small step.

By : - G.S.Vaskumar