There is a loneliness
that has nothing to do
with being alone
it is the quiet ache
of carrying whole conversations
inside your heart
because you no longer know
who would truly understand them
perhaps that is the hardest part
the absence
of feeling deeply known
yet even loneliness
has something to teach
it strips away
until all that remains is you
the heart that feels deeply
also loves deeply
the soul that longs so fiercely
has not been forgotten
one day
someone will sit beside your silence
without trying to fill it
and for the first time
your loneliness
will realize
it was never asking
to be rescued
it was only asking
to be understood
°Woodlights Woudlicht
