On loneliness and separation from the wider world…
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American Poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature (1987)
. . .
An angel dressed as thought appeared,
Enrobed in wares of light.
And from the blinding glare I heard
An air of sage insight.
.
The hallowed blow had stirred alive
Those dormant drapes of death.
Concealer of the afterlife
Displaced by angel breath.
.
She spoke with dulcet voice so sweet,
Of topic juxtaposed.
Of souls a-weeping, gnashing teeth,
In hell where they reposed.
.
She spoke of quarters, lone, forlorn,
The denizen of hell.
Curiously, mention of brimstone,
Was not among her tell.
.
In fact, her hell was much alike
The world that we live in,
Where loneliness is meant to spike
As punishment for sin.
.
The angel left, the vision gone,
My mind driven a-clang.
I reasoned that she came to warn
Of isolation’s pang.
.
I promptly turned my sight therefore
To those I trust and love,
To tell them quick that this is so,
Before life ends abrupt.
. . .
~ Granville D. Austin
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