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I felt lonely.
So I opened the locked door of my bedroom
in hopes of letting the voices of the real world trickle in, if unrealistically:

Television blaring, the rest of my family watching a movie
without me,
a movie most likely about sex, money,
and death.
Inhuman instruments yawn across the expanse
of the street below my window, lights flashing like a warning
or maybe,
a pathetic attempt at sympathy.

Then comes my phone ringing.

One new message from…

The content sends tears skiing off my nose
magnifying the blemishes on my face.

To think I have so few issues and others on this planet are
inexperienced in the means of the word happy.
To think that even then I am just a hopeless human being standing in solitary
unable to help or to hold or to reassure or to rectify anyone else
because we all stand effectively isolated from the one
closest to us. Perhaps you could say that

we are all helpless scraps of life thriving to be happy and striving to live.

Description
I felt lonely.
So I opened the locked door of my bedroom
in hopes of letting the voices of the real world trickle in, if unrealistically:

Television blaring, the rest of my family watching a movie
without me,
a movie most likely about sex, money,
and death.
Inhuman instruments yawn across the expanse
of the street below my window, lights flashing like a warning
or maybe,
a pathetic attempt at sympathy.

Then comes my phone ringing.

One new message from…

The content sends tears skiing off my nose
magnifying the blemishes on my face.

To think I have so few issues and others on this planet are
inexperienced in the means of the word happy.
To think that even then I am just a hopeless human being standing in solitary
unable to help or to hold or to reassure or to rectify anyone else
because we all stand effectively isolated from the one
closest to us. Perhaps you could say that

we are all helpless scraps of life thriving to be happy and striving to live.