Loneliness crawls

Loneliness crawls

under my shirt

cold spreads over

latent hurt

 

scanty shivers

dress

down hearth

cold quivers

s t r i p  o f f

my worth

 

blood in other’s flesh

doesn’t warm my dying

heart

and mine? blotted

upon obscure, orphaned 

art

 

Loneliness crawls

makes me unwhole

flawed symphony calls

through the hole in my soul.